Firstly, the story “Dog Mondays Vigil” by Lucy Maud Montgomery promotes the idea that animals deserve moral consideration through the intelligence of the main character Dog Monday, who is the pet dog of the Blythe family. When Jem was going away to war, Monday missed him like crazy and kept going back to the train station to wait for him, so Shirley said, “Guess Monday had made up his mind to wait there until Jem comes back” (Montgomery 635). After trying to coax the dog back home, Shirley acknowledges that Dog Monday does not want to go home and lets him stay there. Shirley understands that…