![]() ![]() This due to the fact that the "whitecoats" would drown him in a tank and revive him to measure how his survival skills improve. Although Rowf is a courageous character, he has great fear of water. He escapes with Snitter into the wilderness. "at first sight it seemed to be wearing a kind of black cap, causing it rather to resemble one of those animals in children's comic papers which, while the draughtsman may have given it the head of a cat, dog, bear, mouse or what you will, nevertheless wears clothes and may even go so far as to possess inappropriate anatomical features (elbow-joints, for instance, or hands)." (Adams, 29).Īn animated film based on the book was released in 1982. ![]() The dialogue of one character, a tod Red Fox, was "a good deal simplified" for an American edition (Adams, 11).Įarly in The Plague Dogs, Snitter, a terrier dog, is described: Many characters speak in dialect and heavy accents, phonetically-spelled. It was first published in 1977, and is about Rowf and Snitter, two dogs who escape from Animal Research, Surgical and Experimental (A.R.S.E.), in the Lake District of England. ![]() The Plague Dogs is a novel by Richard Adams. ![]()
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