How Smudge came
By: Nan Gregory ; Ron Lightburn, illustrator
Series: Northern lights books for children
Publisher: Red Deer College Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Red Deer, Alta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Developmentally disabled -- Juvenile fiction; Pets -- Juvenile fiction; Dogs -- Juvenile fiction
Notes: Cindy, a developmentally challenged women, finds a stray dog to love, and shares it with a blind man at the Hospice where she works, but is not allowed to keep it at home.  She tries to retrieve it from the SPCA, but it has already been taken: by the Hospice, where she can care for it & see it everyday, along with all the patients