Possible Clues:

• Female dog
• Complain about check on basic piece of information
• Female beast nipped small child
• Pig pen hot — temperature drops inside
• Dog nibbled companion
• Dog proved vicious, needing check
• Profanely-named song from the Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers'
• Female animal
• At first she is not wholly dogged, but irritable at last
• Song said to be Mick Jagger's reponse to Marianne Faithfull after their breakup