WILL MARK BRAINLIEST Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild. Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances. She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck’s wounds... Ni, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.

This passage is important to the story because it shows that Buck

A)has left behind his old friends and ways of life.
B)has become part of a new family of dogs.
C)has started to feel strong and healthy again.
D)has given up his need to be a leader.