What was the name of the short story Mark Twain wrote about a talking dog?

Mark Twain’s short story about a talking dog was A Dog’s Tale.

The story is narrated by a household dog, giving readers an animal’s perspective on loyalty, cruelty, and human hypocrisy. The dog rescues a baby from a nursery fire, but her actions are initially misunderstood and she is badly beaten. Later, her puppy is killed in a scientific experiment, turning the story into a pointed attack on vivisection.

Twain first published A Dog’s Tale in the December 1903 issue of Harper’s Magazine. It was then issued as a pamphlet for the National Anti-Vivisection Society in January 1904 before appearing in expanded book form later that year.

The title is sometimes confused with A Horse’s Tale, another Twain animal story published later. The key distinction is that A Dog’s Tale uses a dog narrator and directly argues against the suffering caused by experiments on animals.