Cujo

And if he left it in the house or the barn, Cujo might just decide to up and crap on the floor again. Also, when it came to food, Cujo was a big cheerful glutton. He would cat half the first day, half the second day, and then walk around hungry until Joe came back.

The Camber family's Saint Bernard, stricken with rabies.

Joe Camber shrieked. He remembered Gary. He covered his throat with one hand and tried to grapple with Cujo with the other. Cujo backed off momentarily, snapping, his muzzle wrinkled back in a great humorless grin that showed teeth like a row of slightly yellowed fence spikes. Then he came again.

The dog attacking his owner Joe Camber is explicitly named Cujo in the original story.

“Sure,” Bertie said. “Monster dog. Like Cujo in that movie. Riii-ight.” “It was ,” Andy said. “Swear to God. If it hadn’t been for the old guy yelling at him, he would have gone right through that gate. Which is so old it needs Medicure.” “Medicare ,” I said.

Radar is compared to Cujo explicitly as the dog in the movie.

But folks are still not done talking about Joe Camber, who got killed by his own dog. Well, it don’t matter. It’s just that they are different racecourses we run on. Summer people are trotters; us others that don’t put on ties to do our week’s work are just pacers.

The unnamed-in-this-passage dog that killed its owner Joe Camber in Castle Rock. The named owner and event identify Cujo, whose attack is directly narrated in Cujo.

… went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven’t forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him. The dog killed good old Sheriff George Bannerman, too. Alan Pangborn is doing that job these days, and he’s a good man, but he won’t never stack up to Big George in the eyes of the …

An unnamed rabid dog is identified by the established victims Joe Camber and Sheriff George Bannerman. This is the previously accepted Cujo identity, not a new unnamed dog.

Castle Rock history names the Saint Bernard Cujo and the Town Road Number Three attack.

There was a big old St. Bernard went rabid downstate a couple of years ago and killed four people. That was a hell of a thing. Dog hadn’t had his shots. If those foolish people had seen that dog had had its shots, it never would have happened.

Jud recalls a large St. Bernard that went rabid downstate, killed four people and had not received its shots. Independent comparison with Cujo supports the identity by the distinctive incident; Jud does not name the dog here.

Identity inferred from the matching rabies incident, species and four deaths; not explicitly named in this passage.

I never even blamed the dog, a St. Bernard named Cujo, who circled and circled our dead Ford Pinto for three days under the hammering summer sun. There’s a book by Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and that perfectly described what happened to my wife and son.

Vic recalls Cujo, the rabid Saint Bernard, and son Tad dying in the trapped Pinto.

Chopper was—at least until Joe Camber’s dog Cujo went rabid twenty years later—the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock. He was the meanest dog for forty miles around (or so we heard), and ugly enough to stop a striking clock. The kids whispered legends about Chopper’s meanness.

The narrator recalls Joe Camber’s Cujo going rabid twenty years after Chopper’s local notoriety.

“You know who I am.” “God yeah!” Bryan Smith said, and chuckled. He took a bite of the candy bar and talked through it. “Reckonized you right away. I seen all your movies. My favorite was the one about the Saint Bernard. What was that dog’s name?” “Cujo,” King said.

Bryan Smith and the fictionalized King discuss the movie dog and the different fate of the child in the book.

The dog’s body seemed to have elongated but not thinned; if anything, it seemed thicker—not fatter, but more heavily muscled. And its teeth were bigger. Longer. Sharper. Pop suddenly found himself remembering Joe Camber’s Saint Bernard, Cujo—the one who had killed Joe and that old tosspot Gary Pervier and Big George Bannerman.

Pop recalls Camber’s rabid Saint Bernard and the deaths of Camber, Pervier and Bannerman.