[Patricia]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Help, I'm looking for a story written from the point of view of a dog. Can't remember if he was a stray or not but he's intelligent, manipulative and has a superiority complex towards humans. It's a fairly humorous work of fiction that I read back when I was still in high school, but, for the life of me, I can't remember what the title or who the author is now.

Thanks!

Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale might be the one you mean.

Here's the opening:

My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education; it was only show: she got the words by listening in the dining-room and drawing-room when there was company, and by going with the children to Sunday-school and listening there; and whenever she heard a large word she said it over to herself many times, and so was able to keep it until there was a dogmatic gathering in the neighborhood, then she would get it off, and surprise and distress them all, from pocket-pup to mastiff, which rewarded her for all her trouble.

Even better, vivaldirules has already uploaded it into our library.
LRF:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20938
Mobi/prc:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20939
IMP
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20940