#469 The Gone Dogs- Frank Herbert
This story is about man’s unstoppable need to control the
natural world, the hubris to think we can do it without consequence, and the
destructive power of material desires.
An amateur biologist makes a horrible decision. He used
radioactive carbon egg to mutate hog cholera and then implanted it into a
coyote, releasing the infected animal back into the wild. Not understand some
basic tenets of natural science, he thought that he could eliminate the dangers
coyotes pose to ranchers without doing any damage to other animals. Instead,
the entire canine population on earth is about to be wiped out, coyote’s, fox,
and the most important to humans, dogs.
“Each man kills the thing he loves.”
Humans reach out to their alien connection on Vega who
specialize in bio-genetics, but a series of political snafus and human
selfishness makes saving dogs near impossible. With the death on one species,
another may be born.
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