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A Dog Called Kitty
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SOLVED. Middle grade fiction: boy bitten by rabid dog and treated, subsequently adopts stray dog. [s]
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Found this one via Google search:A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace
Reader description:
Two years ago Ricky, now going into fifth grade, along with his father, mother, and younger brother Chuckie, moved from their apartment house in St. Louis, MO, to a 160-acre farm near Chickasha, One summer day a stray puppy comes to the farm. But Ricky is afraid of it; in fact, he is scared of all dogs because he was attacked by a rabid dog when he was just a toddler and had to get painful rabies shots. However, Ricky feels sorry for the new puppy because it comes to eat when his mom calls “here kitty” to feed the cats, but they run it off, so it never gets any food. As a result of this, the dog gets the name of Kitty.
Ricky then musters all his courage, begins to feed the pup, and gradually overcomes his fear of dogs.




Thanks for any help you can give me!