The Plague Dogs (novel)

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The Plague Dogs

First edition cover from 1977
Author	Richard Adams
Illustrator	A. Wainwright
Cover artist	Martin White
Language	English
Genre	Adventure fiction, science fiction, thriller fiction
Publisher	Allen Lane
Publication date	22 September 1977
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	461 (hardback edition)
ISBN	978-0-7139-1055-1 (hardback edition)
OCLC	3496427
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ4.A2163 Pl PR6051.D345

The Plague Dogs is a novel by English author Richard Adams, first published in 1977 by Allen Lane. The book centres around the friendship of two dogs that escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. As in Adams' debut novel, Watership Down (1972), the animal characters in The Plague Dogs are anthropomorphised.

The Plague Dogs features location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author. The conclusion of the book involves two real-life characters, Adams' long-time friend Ronald Lockley, and the world-famous naturalist Sir Peter Scott. Having seen a manuscript, both men readily agreed to be identified with the characters and opinions that Adams had attributed to them, as is shown in Adams' preface to the book.

In 1982, The Plague Dogs was adapted into an animated feature film of the same name.