Lucy Maud Montgomery’s “Dog Monday’s Vigil,” promotes the idea that animals like Dog Monday are worthy of moral consideration. For instance, when Jem enlisted in the military to serve in the First World War, Dog Monday proved his allegiance. However, Monday declined to return home after the Blythe family dropped the soldier off at the railway station, and his long and devoted vigil began at that time: "His dear master had gone; he, Monday, had been deliberately and of malice aforethought prevented from going with him by a demon disguised in the grab of a Methodist minister. Wherefore, he…