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He doesn't really. When he asks his dad for a dog he is told they don't have the money to buy dogs. That's why he gets the traps at first, where Sammy the cat keeps getting caught. So, he decides that he can save up for the dogs after he sees the ad in the hunting magazine and he starts to do things to get the money. When he finally orders the dogs it is his grandfather who helps him because he pays the difference in what Billy has saved and the cost of the dogs ( Billy never knew he helped him). The family was very poor and that is one of the things that is an important fact in the book.

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