The Plague Dogs

:This article is about the 1977 novel. For the animated film, see The Plague Dogs (animated film).

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Novel - The Plague Dogs (animated film)

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The Plague Dogs is the third novel of Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. It was first published in 1977.

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Richard Adams - Watership Down - 1977

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This book tells of the escape of two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, from a government research station in the Lake District in England, where they had been horribly mistreated. They live on their own with help from a fox, or "tod" in his Geordie dialect. After they attack some sheep on the fells, they are described as ferocious man-eating monsters by a journalist called Digby Driver. A great dog hunt follows which is intensified with the fear that the dogs could be carriers of a dangerous bioweapon like bubonic plague.

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Lake District - England - Geordie - Bioweapon - Bubonic plague

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Like its predecessor Watership Down, this novel has an animated film based on it. Unlike the book, where the dogs find sanctuary from the hunters and they are cleared of being carriers; the film takes a harder tone with an ending where the dogs are driven out to open water where they likely drown.

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Watership Down - Animated film

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