For most of the duration of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s short story “Dog Mondays’s Vigils”, hospitality for the dog character is naturally executed by multiple of the human characters. For example, when Dog Monday, the dog character, refuses to eat or sleep when locked in his family’s house, the family decide to let him live temporarily in the train station so he won’t starve: “Dr. Blythe arranged with the butcher to eat the station to feed him with bones and scraps.”(Montgomery 6) The main setting of the short story, the train station, is linked to the hospitality theme because when Dog Monday…