Perky

Perky is Mrs. Wood's dog and the mother of Pal. She first appears in the episode Arthur's Pet Business. Mr. Higgins, the mail carrier, refers to her as Jaws. When Mrs. Wood goes away on vacation, Perky stays with Arthur. She acts very grouchy and unfriendly when she comes to stay at the Read household. Arthur doesn't know what's bothering her and believes that he has ruined her life. When Mrs. Wood comes to get her, Arthur cannot find Perky, but then he finds her snuggled up behind the living room chair, to which she has given birth to three puppies. She acts very happy when Arthur pets her revealing that the reason she was so grumpy was because she was pregnant and that nobody seemed to take any notice about it. As a reward, Mrs. Wood lets Arthur keep one of Perky's puppies which winds up becoming Pal in the end.

She is also seen in flashbacks in Arthur Writes a Story when Arthur starts writing a story about how he got Pal. Also in that episode, she was seen as an elephant in the false stories that D.W. suggested to Arthur after she called the real story he was trying to write as "boring".

In What Scared Sue Ellen, Sue Ellen hears something howling in the dead woods and becomes frightened, so she, Arthur, Binky, and Buster decide to find out what it is that's scaring them and it turns out to be Perky who was stuck in a tree trunk. She is reunited with Mrs. Wood who asks to give Arthur and his friends a kiss for rescuing her but this scares the gang away. Perky isn't seen after these episodes.