Read a couple of stories by wordytom, 'Dog and his Boy' and 'Depression Soup', both of which featured abnormally intelligent dogs. I'd be grateful for any more recommendations in similar vein. (I'm already following Morales's wolves in 'Arlene and Jeff'.)
ETA Dog-like creatures are fine eg Vanessa Ravencroft's 'Adventures of a Greenie' stories.
Cheers,
AJ
any more recommendations in similar vein
Would be enhanced big cats (Siberian tigers, cougars and jaguars) and enhanced birds (eagles and falcons) who can 'mindspeak' with their enhanced human partners similar enough?
Then look into Uncle Jim's Tiger Team series, the third story is still in progress.
HM.
enhanced big cats
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm following Uncle Jim's 'Tiger Team' series and it's pretty good. However I'm looking only for dogs and dog-like creatures.
AJ
Pity. Tom Frost has a series on a smart Russian Blue living in a New York library who learns how to turn into a human.
https://storiesonline.net/s/75123/a-girl-named-boy
https://storiesonline.net/series/1001/human
Refusenik has such a dog in the series above.
https://storiesonline.net/series/1001/human
Refusenik has such a dog in the series above.
Good one! How could I have forgotten such great stories!
AJ
'Dog and His Boy' is a story from WordyTom. Young teen boy gets found by a dog, who later turns out to be an alien or something like that. It's been a while since I read the story,
https://storiesonline.net/s/67164/dog-and-his-boy
Kris Me has one in the Tara series - shape shifting dogs + magic. https://storiesonline.net/s/17012/tara-dogs
The whole series (and universe) is well written and has some interesting space travel meets magic and high fantasy elements.
"A Boy and his Dog' by Harlan Elison. I remember reading this as a young'un.
"Winner of the Nebula Award: A boy and his telepathic dog fight to survive in a war-torn, post-apocalyptic world in this hard-hitting science fiction novella."
D.T. Iverson has Buster the mutt as a re-cur-ring character in his cheating wives stories. No real intelligence though, more a symbol of dumb loyalty that contrasts with the disloyalty of the MC's intelligent women.
I would recommend Depression Soup but you've already read it. I recently read a couple of rather clever stories on Lit from the viewpoint of the dog. If I can make my thunker back into a thinker and recall their titles, I'll PM you.
How about a very intelligent, very loyal werewolf for a girlfriend?
https://storiesonline.net/stories/bytag/were-animal/4
However I'm looking only for dogs and dog-like creatures.
Hmm,
Missy the Werecat series by P.G. Allison (nine books so far plus the two books spin-off Tracy the Fire Witch) are mostly about Missy's adventures as a werecat and witch, but she meets a married couple of werewolves and when this couple gets problems with the large New England werewolf pack she fights their Alpha and becomes – after killing him in this fight – the new Alpha. She then convinces the Alphas of other packs to clandestinely help the authorities against terrorists and criminals.
Missy the Werecat; Missy Goes to West Point; Missy's First Mission; Missy's Misadventure; Missy Makes Mayhem; Missy's Operation Lily Pad; Missy's Operation Demon Lore; Missy Goes to Hong Kong; Missy Goes to Annapolis;
Tracy the Fire Witch; Tracy Plays Demon;
HM.
Saxon Hart has the MC's dogs 'tree' the cheating wife and her lover in the bedroom:
https://storiesonline.net/s/13075/best-friends
First story that comes to mind is a dead tree story called Fear nothing by Dean koontz
In "Dire Wolf and Fang", the canine part of the team spends part of his time as a mutation where they turn into a dire wolf.
One that is highly intelligent, to almost human levels. But as he is still a canine, his thought processes and cognitive abilities are not like that of a human. He simply sees the world and everybody in it very differently than we would.
He simply sees the world and everybody in it very differently than we would.
Pack - non-predator - predator (tolerated or not) - prey.
Humans fall into either pack or non-predator.
Pack - non-predator - predator (tolerated or not) - prey.
Humans fall into either pack or non-predator.
And that is something I tried to keep in mind whenever I included sequences where his "thoughts" came to the front. His handler he saw as the Alpha, and they were very much partners and had been for years as before the mutation he was her Seeing Eye Dog.
And everything was in his frame of reference. He would die to protect her, or her children as to his way of understanding she would rather die than loose her kids. But he would not do so for anybody else.
But his general outlook and behavior is still canine, he could be brutal and kill or bite the limb off of somebody, then in another scene happily act almost like a puppy as random children come up and pet him. As complex and as many dimensions as a person. But his frame of reference is completely different than a human.
I have in the back of my mind a short story involving him, but have yet to put it down as I know it would be very challenging to do so and remain true to his "thoughts".
