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sw3dishfish
Since: Jul, 2011
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FuzzyBoots
Since: Jan, 2001
2011-09-01 10:57:31
How about The Witch's Walking Stick
? It does involve a dog and a magic stick and what you described sounds like it could be backstory for the plot summary.

I think I read this story in a folk story book at my piano teachers house as a child. Its kinda dark and hans christian anderson-esque.
I only half remember the details, but it's about a magic stick that grants wishes. A boy finds it and shows it to a girl who doesn't believe that it's magic. He tries to convince her that it is, and she gets frustrated so she takes the stick and wishes that if she threw it the boy would turn into a dog, chase after it and leave her alone. And he turns into a dog. Later a family has the dog guarding a baby in a crib for some reason and an eagle comes in and attacks the baby and carries it away. The family comes in and sees blood everywhere and kills the dog/boy.
Yeah I don't know.