Dog is Katherine’s pet wolf. Valentine found him as a cub and shot his mother but didn’t have the heart to kill him, mirroring how Valentine killed Pandora Shaw but didn’t kill her daughter, Hester. Dog’s wild nature reveals that Katherine is not quite the typical high-society London girl that she appears to be.
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Dog Character Timeline in Mortal Engines
The timeline below shows where the character Dog appears in Mortal Engines. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...to behave, and it becomes meek. She is Katherine, Valentine’s daughter, and the wolf is Dog, a creature that Valentine brought back from an expedition. Dog likes Tom, and Katherine says...
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Valentine, Tom, Dog, and Katherine all go down several sets of stairs to the Digestion Yards. As they...
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Chapter 10
...London, the air clears, and that morning, it’s time for Valentine to leave. Katherine and Dog wish Valentine goodbye, along with a crowd of other people, including Crome. His ship takes...
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Chapter 16
...scavenger towns along the way. Meanwhile, down in the Gut of London, Katherine goes with Dog to talk with Apprentice Engineer Pod, who may have witnessed Tom’s fall into the trash...
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Chapter 27
...she’s even falling in love with him. One day when Katherine is in the museum, Dog takes an interest in the fossil of an extinct animal called the blue whale. As...
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Chapter 32
All of a sudden, Katherine and Pod hear shouting from somewhere else in the Museum. Dog growls. A security team of Engineers comes down the stairs. Dog won’t calm down, so...
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