From an experimental station where cruel experiments are carried out on animals, two friends run away — a stray dog Rafe and a fox terrier, Shustrik. But the long-awaited freedom hides new dangers and trials.
A novel by master of English literature Richard Adams, author of “The Plague Ship” (“The Ship of Hills”) and “Watership Down,” revered alongside Carroll and Tolkien, critics classify as “fantasy about animals.” “The Plague Dogs” is a philosophical travel novel, an engrossing story of the adventures of two dogs who escaped from a bio-lab where they were subjected to brutal experiments.
The animated film of the same name released in 1982 had the effect of a bomb exploding: an agitated public, animal welfare organizations, and Greenpeace accused governments of almost all countries of inhumanity, extermination of our smaller brothers, and relentless development of biological weapons.