The Plague Dogs

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

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.

Like its predecessor Watership Down, this novel has an animated movie based on it.