Montgomery and Srinivasan both show in their respective pieces of literature, the short story “Dog Monday’s Vigil” and the essay “The Free Dogs of India”, how domesticated animals deserve equal liberation and freedom compared to non-domesticated animals in the real world. While “Dog Monday’s Vigil” argues for the respect in an ownership of a pet, “The Free Dogs of India” show the respect towards the pets’ freedom, in both cases the pet being a dog. The short story depicts a dog’s life in a train station after its owner departed for World War I. The dog, Dog Monday, refused to leave the…