Short stories about dogs

Roverandom is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925, about the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the Moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog. The author wrote Roverandom for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favourite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach of grey shingle stones the same size and colour as the toy. The work is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of Farme

short story by Ivan Turgenev

"Kashtanka" () is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov. It follows the adventures, mostly in the circus, of a mongrel dog of the same name. The story was adapted into several films.

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short story by Arthur C. Clarke

Short story by Sadegh Hedayat

short story by Philip K. Dick