Lucy Maud Montgomery "Dog Monday" and Krithika Srinivasan "The Free Dogs of India" both argue that dogs and human relationship are important. However, both authors view how a relationship is properly formed. Srinivasan argues that dogs in India do not need human ownership to have a dependent or co-existent relationship. But Montgomery reveals that dogs do need a sense of ownership to have a dependent loving relationship. The author describes how dogs living freely have a positive impact on human-dog relationships “Free-living dogs can be pests and threats to human health, but they can also…