SOLVED. Chapter book before 2005 about a girl who goes live with a great aunt and her dog runs away. [s]

[Mint]

I read this book before I started middle school in 2005. It was a chapter book and had some ink illustrations in it.
This book is about a girl who goes live with great aunt and she takes her dog with her. The dog is a poodle and I think his name was Buddy. The great aunt lives in this large plot of land people keep pestering her to sell. One day the dog runs away and the MC puts posters up looking for him. Most of the book is her missing the dog and her meeting people who try helping find him. She gets to know her great aunt better and etc too. In the end of the book, she finds the dog who was found by an elderly woman who lives alone. Because she trained the dog so well, the dog prevents a fire in the kitchen and keeps the lady company. So she decides to let her keep the dog. The story ends with her great aunt saying shes going to sell some land and buy her a dog. It was a cute story, but I'm like 30 now and can't remember the title of a book I loved as a child. That and seems like dog books have been popular in the last two decades.

[Becca]

Nothing but Trouble by Betty Ren Wright?

[Mint]

Becca wrote: "Nothing but Trouble by Betty Ren Wright?"
Dude! Thank you so much! Truly! I actually have the dollhouse murders by this same writer and I feel so dumb since now I remember after reading that book I read the rest of her works. I feel so dumb for getting the dogs name wrong too. I kept thinking "No, maybe it was Buster."
Thanks a million.

[Becca]

Glad I could help!