Red Dog (Kipling short story) out, Bagheera, Kaa, Hathi and Louie lure the red dogs into a chase, each one hiding after a certain distance to allow another to take over, culminating in Baloo tricking the red dogs into falling into a gorge filled with bees before they are carried away by the current. Publication information is taken from the appendix to "The World's Classics" edition of "The Second Jungle Book", Oxford University Press, 1987, . Red Dog (Kipling short story) "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
Akela (The Jungle Book) Mowgli has been rejected by humanity and the pack is threatened with extinction by a rampaging pack of dholes, Akela joins the battle and fights to the death, finally dying in Mowgli's company ("Red Dog", in "The Second Jungle Book"). Akela did this for the love of Mowgli and his death is a major factor in Mowgli's decision to finally return to human society at the age of 17. Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of scouting, based aspects of Cub Scouting on Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli Stories. In Cub Scouting, the terms "Law of the Pack," "Akela" (the leader of a group),