num_pages: 390
description: Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation, and terror, of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call ''the Tod,'' the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are labeled ferocious man-eating monsters, setting off a great dog hunt that is later intensified by the fear that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague.
language: English
title: The Plague Dogs
titlecomplete: The Plague Dogs
genres: Animals, Novels, Dogs, Young Adult, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Animal Fiction, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 8050
publisher: Ballantine Books