Dog Kill

by Mone Zaidi

A leading physician and clinical researcher explains the social and human costs of osteoporosis. A GUIDE FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING OSTEOPOROSIS presents our newly emerging understanding that our bones are highly dynamic, very responsive to hormonal balance and fully integrated into our endocrine systems. The book explains what steps we can take to avoid osteoporosis, or if it has already taken hold, what steps and treatments are available to remediate or control the advance of this insidious disease. As we age, most women and over one-third of men lose bone density to some degree, because the new bone deposition fails to quite keep up with osteoclastic bone removal. For a majority of women past menopause, the dynamic balance of new bone deposition and bone removal shifts significantly enough to place them at heightened risk for bone fractures. Osteoporosis is fairly subtle in its onset, but it has a huge impact on the quality of life and on mortality for the more severely affected, and most of us could be more aware of the early signs of loss of bone density and the steps we can take to keep our bones healthy.

Genres: Horror

203 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 1987

Reviews

[Mikepottz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The dog's jaw wraps around a man's calf as he closes a car door, the dog continues to attack violently the car, lips pulled back exposing blood flecked teeth. Dogs being experimented on by defence, trying to replicate military injuries the dogs are subject to napalm burns, shrapnel wounds, crushed pelvises. The dogs are released by animal activists/anti-govt and put in the wild. One will survive. A heart wrenching scene of three puppies released to fend for themselves. A guard dog will go nuts, ripping its owners cornea, blood pouring down their cheek. Various dogs will band together creating a wild pack, starting on rabbits, a horrifying attack at a school, mauling and disfiguring kids traumatising their minds forever. Legs crushed, muscles mauled, blood and fresh consumed in primeval brutal savagery. Not your typical animal attack book.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Man's best friend becomes it's worst enemy in story about household pets (with some generically enhanced modifications) turning into bloodthirsty predators.

Mel Ryan, former animal control agent, and new assistant to the Superintendent of the Brown County State Park was removed from his previous position after a harrowing incident involving stray dogs and an elk. Having thought he left the confronting incident behind, he finds himself once more embroiled in a brooding battle between man and animal.

With little rhyme or reason, household pets leave the safety of their homes to bond with strays, forming packs in dense woodland and spending their days searching for females in heat, fighting with one another, or brutally attacking rabbits. There's not a whole lot going on story-wise, however I did like the alternating chapters which switched perspective from dog to human and vice versa.

Dog Kill is full of over-the-top bloodthirsty action involving those lovable canine creatures (who aren't so lovable here...), with one particularly manic scene playing out at a primary school where a baseball and volleyball session becomes a game of doggy dodge ball as the small bales of pent up aggression seek solace in the flesh of easy targets. Parents and dog owners would do well to skip this chapter.

Dog Kill is a difficult book to read at times, particularly the ending which pits man verses our humble companion in a showdown that's unsettling and tough to swallow. Anyone who shies away from confronting acts of fictional violence should take note before delving into this one; a light-hearted horror this isn't.