I believe that the story “Dog Monday’s Vigil” promotes animal welfare because it shows how the family of the dog owner were going out of their way to help feed and try to take care of the distressed dog that was waiting for their owner to come back from war. “For weeks the Ingleide family tried to coax Dog Monday home – and failed. Once Walter went down and brought him home by main force in the buggy…” (Montgomery, 635) Through the action taken by the character we can see how he is trying to convey animal welfare by showing how hard the Ingleide's were trying to take care of Dog Monday even…