Looking for children's book about a dog kennel....?

Question

I read this book 30 years ago, and can remember only bits of it--can anyone help me name it? A widowed mother and her children move to the country, to her relative's (uncle's?) dog kennel. They mostly raise cocker spaniels, and one of them, named Penny, is returned back after being abused. I hope someone recognizes this, because I remember really liking the book.

Answer 1

Here are a few possibilites:

A dog named Penny
Clyde Robert Bulla; Kate Seredy
1955
English Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience [82] p. ill. 23 cm.
Lexington, Mass. Ginn,


A Penny saved,
Joan A Fairman; Haris Petie
1971
English Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience [32] p. col. illus. 24 cm.
Mount Vernon, N.Y., Lantern Press
When they discover their boat is missing, three boys must use their ingenuity to transport an injured dog back to the mainland for help.


Penny.
Ruth M Stringer
1962
English Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience 54 p. illus.
New York, Houghton,
Story of a small boy's search for his neighbor's lost dog.


You can't take twenty dogs on a date /
Betty Cavanna
1977
English Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience 178 p. ; 21 cm.
Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ; ISBN: 0664326137 9780664326135
When Jo is forced to give up her plans for college, she opens a boarding kennel for dogs.


Edited to add one more possibility:

Puppy Stakes. Cavanna, Betty. Originally published by The Westminster Press in 1943 before being issued in Grosset & Dunlap's "Starlight Novels for Modern Girls" series. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1943, and New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943, 262 pages. A teen-aged girl has few hopes for excitement during her time spent with country relatives, but when her arrival coincides with that of a litter of pups from the family's cocker spaniel, things take an unexpected turn for the better. "Paprika's having pups" was hardly the welcome Janey expected. But the litter of cocker spaniels who stole the limelight from Janey's arrival soon won her heart, just as they will win yours. Teenage story about a girl who goes to live with her aunt and the cocker spaniel puppy, Budge.