Ned's cousin is nosy, talkative, do-goody...everything a boy fears in a visiting relative. And their parents seem for some reason to feel that they're best friends. Renfrew goes nowhere without Bundle, a mean omnivorous alley cat. Bundle sees Newton as a bald, anorexic mouse, prime for the gobbling, until Newton eats some Zippy Newt Food and gives Bundle the heebie jeebies.