It's not every day that you discover a windows 3.1 CD-ROM adventure game where you play a lost dog and it's narrated by *squints* Shelly Duvall!?

there's very little info on this game online.
Like, basically none. it exists, I'm sure of that, but like it was easier to find this quote from the game's writer than it was to confirm if it was DOS or Win3.1.
(Carolyn Handler Miller, from A Companion to Creative Writing)

there's like two videos of it online, though:

It was published by Sanctuary Woods in 1994, and apparently also released for Mac. Sanctuary Woods bought the MicroProse Adventure Development System, the one used for Rex Nubular and Return of the Phantom.

the company went out of business in 2001.
I've seen pages saying that Digby the Dog is a different game than "It's a Dog Life" and pages saying they're the same.
so there's lots of confusion about them.

And they were making pseudo-educational Kid's Games (along the lines of Freddy Fish and Putt-Putt) back in the early 90s, including the Victor Vector & Yondo series, which got a release on the Tandy/Memorex VIS! I knew I had heard of them before...

They were also the publisher for The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

it's interesting how video gaming is an area where it seems like everything is documented and we have a good idea on all the major releases but the instant you step off the main path you run into companies like this which made or published like 25 games and it's barely documented

they've got a wikipedia page that lists a bunch of games they made but very few of them are links and some of the names/releases don't seem to be right after only 5 minutes of study

then they link to mobygames, which is surely the definitive source for this kind of scholarly indexing of videogame history and it's a 404.