Caroline and I are reading a series called “The Last Dogs”. It is four books telling the story of three dogs — Max, Rocky and Gizmo — on a quest to find their packs, their people.
A while back the people disappeared. People in hazmat suits picked them all up and took them away leaving all the pets. Now these three — Max, Rocky and Gizmo — want to find their people so they are going through all sorts of adventures to discover what happened to them. It has been a rough go and not much progress was made until the last few chapters of the first book — “The Vanishing”. In “The Vanishing” we see the pups leave their town and go to the city where they encounter packs of rats, cats and wolves. They get hurt, chased and hungry. They learn about The Corporation and how the animals left behind are trying to cope with being on their own.
The first book is exciting, cruel in places, humorous (thanks to Rocky and Gizmo) and just really leaves you wanting more
Then comes the second book — “Dark Waters” — same cast and crew and more adventures. I won’t spoil it except for one thing —
The three pups ventured to the Zoo and met The Mountain (Mortimer the Elephant) — and that is where they heard about the virus. Apparently there was a lab — The Lab — where experiments were done on animals and the Praxis procedure was performed on the animals making them super intelligent. The procedure involved injecting a virus into the animals and then zapping them with electricity to activate it. Seems the virus escaped the lab, mutated and started infecting the animals and then infecting the people. Because of that, the people evacuated and left the pets behind because even though the pets weren’t getting sick, the people were.
UH, HELLO! What a book to be reading right now! What kind of coincidence is that? We are half way through the second book and it is becoming disturbing. Caroline is loving it and since they don’t watch a lot of news I don’t think she sees the comparison of what is happening right now.
But I do.
That’s all I have to say.
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