Kävik the Wolf Dog
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Kävik the Wolf Dog is a book written in 1968 by Walt Morey.
[edit] Plot
Kävik, a malamute sled dog, gets sold from Charlie One-eye to Mr. Hunter for $2,000 after winning the North American Sled-dog race and is loaded on a plane in an iron-barred cage flown by Smiley Johnson. Right in the middle of the trip something goes wrong and the plane crashes into the ground, killing Smiley Johnson before he even had time to stop smiling and undo his seatbelt. Kävik's cage makes a gaping hole in the side of the plane as it explodes in an inferno. After being trapped in a cage for three days while starving, freezing, and getting multiple wounds from neighboring animals he is found by young Andy Evans, a teenage boy, and he uses a piece of the plane's wing to open the cage and use as a sled to carry the dog until they reached a cave, where Andy and Kävik spend the night. The next morning, Andy is shaken awake by his father, Kurt Evans, and they take Kävik back to their house. Laura Evans, Andy's mother, suggests that they take him over to Dr. Walker. When Dr. Walker arrives he was lead to believe, by Andy, that Laura was sick but he learns that Kävik was injured instead and refuses to operate on him, but, with Laura's tricky ways, gets persuaded to operate. Soon over the period of a few weeks he get better and heals. Andy notices he is as good as new when he climbs up the stairs and is able to open his door. One day, while Andy is out doing something, Kävik gets chased by a dog named Blackie and his pack of dogs and it turns out he lost his fighting spirit! A few weeks later, Andy cones home and notices that Kävik is nowhere to be found. His dad tells Andy that Mr. Hunter came by and picked Kävik up. When Mr. Hunter goes to show Kävik off and Kavik escapes out of a window and sets out over 2,000 miles to return to Andy.
