Artistic License – Animal Care: Subverted with the dog's diet.Squirrel can also understand foxes but not cats, suggesting canines can understand one another. Squirrel's internal monologue implies that animals talk to each other, but the book is in first-person and the only dialogue comes from humans. Animal Naming Conventions: Mother dogs name their children after things that are important to them.Abandon the Disabled: Stream abandoned her small son who wouldn't be able to walk.This is the start of Squirrel's long and difficult life as a feral dog. They live happily with their mother, Stream, until danger causes their mother to abandon them. Squirrel and her brother Bone are the only survivors of her litter of five. Squirrel is born in an abandoned shed by a vacation house occupied by many feral cats, mice, and other small animals. A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray is a novel by Ann M.
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