Red Dog (Kipling short story)

For the short story collection by Nancy Gillespie, see Red Dog (short story collection).
Mowgli mourns Akela: illustration from "Red Dog" by John Lockwood Kipling, father of the author.

"Red Dog" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling.

Written at Kipling's home in Brattleboro, Vermont between February and March 1895, it was first published as "Good Hunting: A Story of the Jungle" in The Pall Mall Gazette for July 29 and 30 1895 and McClure's Magazine for August 1895 before appearing under its definitive title as the 7th and penultimate story in The Second Jungle Book later the same year. It was also the penultimate Mowgli story to be written.