A dog in the city is a children's story about a little boy named James and his best friend a dog named Red. In the story James and Red the dog are playing in the yard. Read the dog gets separated from his best friend James and Red the dog as an adventure in the big city. He spends a long day in the city and at the end of the day is reunited with his best friend James. Red the dog is returned to the home of his best friend James who lives in the country with his mother and father.