Started Early, Took My Dog is a 2010 novel by English writer Kate Atkinson named after the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name.

It was adapted into an episode of the second season of the British television series Case Histories in 2013.

The main story takes place over a few days in present-day (2010) Leeds, England and vicinity.

There are frequent flashbacks to 1975, when the mystery being investigated originated.