
This attracts the attention of a playful Rottweiler named Nugent (Brian Stepanek), who chases them across several lawns before all of the food the animals gathered, as well as Gladys's car is destroyed. RJ tries to stop him, resulting in an argument between the two. Worried for his family's safety, Verne decides to return the food to the humans. Verne, however, remains wary, especially after homeowners association president, Gladys Sharp, ( Allison Janney) discovers the animals in her yard, chases them out through the hedge, and hires VermTech exterminator (or "Verminator") Dwayne LaFontant ( Thomas Haden Church) to keep them out. RJ, who sees the entire commotion, convinces the other animals that it is easier to raid the humans' garbage for food rather than forage for it, and they manage to get enough food to keep them from starving. Verne investigates, discovering a human residential community that confuses and frightens him. They begin foraging but find a large hedge blocking their way. The animals consist of, Hammy the squirrel ( Steve Carell), Stella the skunk ( Wanda Sykes), oppossums Ozzie ( William Shatner) and his daughter, Heather ( Avril Lavigne), and porcupines Lou ( Eugene Levy), his wife, Penny ( Catherine O'Hara), and three children, Spike (Shane Baumel), Bucky (Sami Kirkpatrick) and Quillo (Madison Davenport). Meanwhile, a group of forest animals, led by Verne ( Garry Shandling) the turtle, emerge from hibernation to find their food cache nearly empty. Hastily, he promises to replace everything by the time Vincent reawakens in a week.

However, while trying to finish by stealing a can of "Spuddies" potato chips, he wakes Vincent and loses both the food and the wagon that it is on when a truck runs it over. After RJ ( Bruce Willis), a hungry raccoon, fails to get snacks from a vending machine, he becomes so desperate that he tries to raid a large food cache belonging to Vincent ( Nick Nolte), a hibernating bear.
