Roog

by Philip K. Dick

"Roog" tells the story from the point of view of a dog named Boris, who observes his master's carefully stored food in containers outside of their house day after day. Unbeknownst to the dog, these are the human's trash cans for garbage.

Philip K. Dick sold approximately fifteen short stories himself before becoming a client of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. "Roog" was his first sale but not his first published story.

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Audiobook

5 pages, Audiobook

First published February 1, 1953

About the author

Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound philosophical themes, Dick explored the nature of reality, the boundaries of human identity, and the impact of technology and authoritarianism on society. His stories often blurred the line between the real and the artificial, challenging readers to question their perceptions and beliefs.
Raised in California, Dick began writing professionally in the early 1950s, publishing short stories in various science fiction magazines. He quickly developed a distinctive voice within the genre, marked by a fusion of science fiction concepts with deep existential and psychological inquiry. Over his career, he authored 44 novels and more than 100 short stories, many of which have become classics in the field.
Recurring themes in Dick's work include alternate realities, simulations, corporate and government control, mental illness, and the nature of consciousness. His protagonists are frequently everyday individuals—often paranoid, uncertain, or troubled—caught in surreal and often dangerous circumstances that force them to question their environment and themselves. Works such as Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkly reflect his fascination with perception and altered states of consciousness, often drawing from his own experiences with mental health struggles and drug use.
One of Dick’s most influential novels is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which served as the basis for Ridley Scott’s iconic film Blade Runner. The novel deals with the distinction between humans and artificial beings and asks profound questions about empathy, identity, and what it means to be alive. Other adaptations of his work include Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Man in the High Castle, each reflecting key elements of his storytelling—uncertain realities, oppressive systems, and the search for truth. These adaptations have introduced his complex ideas to audiences well beyond the traditional readership of science fiction.
In the 1970s, Dick underwent a series of visionary and mystical experiences that had a significant influence on his later writings. He described receiving profound knowledge from an external, possibly divine, source and documented these events extensively in what became known as The Exegesis, a massive and often fragmented journal. These experiences inspired his later novels, most notably the VALIS trilogy, which mixes autobiography, theology, and metaphysics in a narrative that defies conventional structure and genre boundaries.
Throughout his life, Dick faced financial instability, health issues, and periods of personal turmoil, yet he remained a dedicated and relentless writer. Despite limited commercial success during his lifetime, his reputation grew steadily, and he came to be regarded as one of the most original voices in speculative fiction. His work has been celebrated for its ability to fuse philosophical depth with gripping storytelling and has influenced not only science fiction writers but also philosophers, filmmakers, and futurists.
Dick’s legacy continues to thrive in both literary and cinematic spheres. The themes he explored remain urgently relevant in the modern world, particularly as technology increasingly intersects with human identity and governance. The Philip K. Dick Award, named in his honor, is presented annually to distinguished works of science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. His writings have also inspired television series, academic studies, and countless homages across media.
Through his vivid imagination and unflinching inquiry into the nature of existence, Philip K. Dick redefined what science fiction could achieve. His work continues to challenge and inspire, offering timeless insights into the human condition a

Reviews

[Bill Kerwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Roog," the first short story Philip K. Dick ever sold, is both a charming and an unsettling fantasy. "Roog" is the sound Boris the dog makes, but though Boris' people think "roog" is nothing but a sound, it is really the name Boris uses for the garbage men, who--Boris suspects--are not really garbage men at all, but aliens who live off human garbage whenever they can circumvent our "guardians" the dogs. Boris continues to bellow "roog!" and the people continue to ignore him. What will happen to the humans once Boris is gone?

One of the best things about this story is that Dick almost allows the reader to convince himself that the "roogs" are a figment of the canine imagination. Almost, that is, but not quite. The are just too many suspicious details about those "roogs."

[Richard Derus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real Rating: 4.25* of five

Poor Boris the Dog, those damned Roogs make fun of him and his humans ignore him and all he's trying to do is tell the Roogs to stay away!

I love perspective-shifting stories and this one's a dilly. What would garbage collectors look like to a dog if not thieves and brigands? Invading their sovereign dogly territory, taking away all that yummy garbage, doing it despite the shouted warnings to cease and desist! Bah, I say, hiss and boo on suchlike goins-on, and stupid the human who fails to heed his Guardian's warnings.

The Roogs are out there. Be sure of that. Don't blame Boris when they...well...YOU know.

This was PKD's first story sale. It's a fun way to ease into the Author Dick-universe. Nothing is quite what it seems...the garbage men, the dog's barking and personality change, none of it...and the warnings you don't heed will make a difference when you've forgotten what they even were. Unjustly neglected early PKD that can be found if one puts in a teensy bit of effort.

[María Carpio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gran relato corto de suspenso. ¿Qué es un Roog? Nunca lo sabremos.

[Enrique · Rating 4 out of 5]

Breve y aparentemente sencillo. Nada más lejos de la realidad, creo… Conociendo un poco los antecedentes y la profundidad filosófica de su obra, me temo que P.K.Dick no construye aquí un relato simple o con una sola interpretación y moraleja. A mí me surgen múltiples versiones en cuanto a lo que se entiende por Roog.

**OJO SPOILER** 

Para mí un Roog pudiera ser desde un simple ladrido (podríamos sustituir el ¡Roog! por el ¡Guau! en muchas partes del relato), usando un lenguaje que ya algunos otros escritores simplificaban una lengua a una palabra acompañada de gestos o a unas pocas palabras, que tribus o pueblos salvajes o inventados usaban para referirse a todo; también puede ser una llamada de atención sobre lo desconocido, la (in)definición de unos personajes inquietantes, etc.

Luego nos enfrentamos a versiones contrapuestas de la realidad, creo que igual que ocurre en la vida real, hay tantas verdades como personas existimos (o perros jeje), y tantas interpretaciones de la realidad como subjetividades de cada individuo. ¿Con que verdad nos quedamos?, ahí estamos como lectores para posicionarnos o debatir y creo que eso es lo grande de este relato.

[Tristram Shandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Question of Perspective?

Roog is one of Philip K. Dick’s earlier short stories, and it was first published in 1953. You will definitely experience its full effect best only if you first read the story itself and then start looking at reviews, so in case you are reading this, go to the story first, and then, if you are still interested, click on the spoiler link below!

Now, did you run through the same gamut of feelings I did? At first, like the poor dog Boris, through whose eyes we get to view most of the story, I felt extremely worried and frightened at the apparently extraterrestrial Roog that approaches the house and is attracted by the window. I was likewise unsettled by the unsuspecting attitude of Mr. and Mrs. Cardossi, who not only seem to have no idea of the strange and lurking threat that is waiting outside their house but who are also actually annoyed at Boris’s barking and his readiness to defend those whom he loves. In the course of the story, however, it dawned upon me that what Boris takes for sinister aliens are just mundane garbagemen engaged in their everyday job, and that made me laugh out loud, partly with a feeling of great and intense relief. But then there were some inconsistencies of perspective in the story, as well as some details that would not really make sense to me in the context of this new interpretational frame of reference, and the story left me with slight misgivings that Boris might have been right after all. A little later, on reflection, the story actually made me feel a bit sad for Boris: There he is, frightened out of his wits, and at the same time ready to stand by his owners and to defend them from alien forces, notwithstanding any danger this might mean for him – but his master and mistress are actually angry with him for making a racket and toy with the thought of giving him away to a relative for fear of the neighbours’ complaints, and there is no way for him to communicate his fears and suspicions to them. That put one of the saddest quotes by Conrad into my mind: “We live as we dream – alone.”

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and short. Unlike myself.

[Sïnestesïa Yp · Rating 3 out of 5]

A veces se te cruzan en el camino textos que no andabas buscando, es decir, ellos te encuentran a vos y te piden como desesperados ladridos de perros, ser leídos. Eso me pasó con "Roog".
Este cuento es narrado desde la perspectiva de un perro que intenta comunicar a sus dueños una determinada situación. Se trata del avistamiento de entidades llamadas Roogs. El lector puede creer a Boris o puede pensar que se trata de una simple distorsión de la realidad por parte del canino. Pero si el lector decide creerle, entonces ¿qué son los Roogs? Eso también debe decidirlo o quedarse con la intriga para siempre.
Un Roog a mi entender puede ser la personificación del miedo a la enfermedad y muerte, ya que los amos de Boris son ancianos. También puede ser el miedo por la falta de comprensión y comunicación; el perro intenta decir algo pero nunca podrá expresarlo en el mismo lenguaje que sus dueños. Esos ladridos del pobre Boris (roog, roog) son probablemente frustraciones, impotencia, miedos, ¿resignación?
No sé muy bien qué son los Roogs (todavia lo estoy decidiendo) pero sí sé que muchas veces cual Boris los percibo.

[Verónica Díaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sin palabras, es maravilloso como un cuento tan corto puede hacerte viajar y hasta casi "palpar" un montón de sensaciones que van desde la angustia, desesperación, fidelidad, protección, impotencia,etc,etc, esto no lo provoca quien quiere sino quien puede...
P.D. Gracias "morocha mala" por la recomendación ;)

[Kaila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read as part of a class I'm taking on Philip K Dick

I didn't go into today thinking I'd be paranoid of my garbagemen, but when you enter the world of Philip K Dick apparently anyone can be against you.

[C.J. Bunce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Originally published online at BORG.com.

Everyone must start somewhere. For Philip K. Dick, it was working in a record shop. He thought he would have worked in that shop his whole life, but for writing one story, and one sale that gave him a bigger vision of his own future.

We all know Philip K. Dick now from his most popular works–posthumously, his short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” became Ridley Scott’s cult sci fi favorite Blade Runner. And after that his short story “We Can Remember it for You Wholesale” became Total Recall.

Then his novel “A Scanner Darkly” became the film of the same name. And now The Adjustment Bureau made it to theaters this year based on Dick’s short story “Adjustment Team.” Previously other Dick works made it to the big screen: Screamers starring Robocop‘s Peter Weller was based on Dick’s short story “Second Variety;” Impostor, starring Gary Sinise, based on the short story of the same name; and Next, starring Nicholas Cage, based on Dick’s short story “The Golden Man.” In his lifetime Dick achieved fame first in 1963 with The Man in the High Castle, which won the Hugo Award for best novel, and then Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975 and was nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award.

But back in 1951, Philip K. Dick worked in a record store. Record stores and characters working in record stores would be revisited time and again in Dick’s works. Dick wrote his first story, titled “Roog.” Originally titled “Friday Morning,” Dick sold his first work of fiction for $75, to friend Anthony Boucher, editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, in October 1951. It was first published in that magazine as the last entry in the February 1953 issue, with no mention of the unknown writer on the magazine’s cover. Dick later described the impetus for his first story, his neighbor’s dog named Snooper.

“Snooper believed as much in his work as I did in my writing. Apparently, his work was to see that no one stole the food from his owner’s garbage can. Snooper was laboring under the delusion that his owners considered the garbage valuable. Every day they’d carry out paper sacks of delicious food and carefully deposit them in a strong metal container, placing the lid down firmly. At the end of the week the garbage can was full–whereupon the worst assortment of evil entities in the Sol System drove up in a huge truck and stole the food. Snooper knew which day of the week this happened on; it was always on Friday. So about 5 am on Friday, Snooper would emit his first bark. My wife and I figured that was about the time the garbagemen’s alarm clocks were going off. Snooper knew when they left their houses. He could hear them. He was the only one who knew; everybody else ignored what was afoot. Snooper must have thought he inhabited a planet of lunatics… I was more fascinated by Snooper’s logic than I was annoyed by his frantic efforts to rouse us. I asked myself, ‘What must the world look like to that dog?’ Obviously he doesn’t see as we see. He has developed a complete system of beliefs, a world view totally different from ours, but logical given the evidence he is basing it on.”

“Roog” is a great, emotional story, among five volumes of short stories of ideas-ahead-of-their-time still in print today. Dick called Roog “a serious story.” “Roog” can be found in several out-of-print compilations like The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1) .

And without Snooper, and without writing his first work and selling it to Anthony Boucher, we would probably never heard of Philip K. Dick and his vast imagination, his speculative works, his great ideas. Dick said in 1978, “Without [Boucher’s] help I’d still be in the record business. I mean that very seriously.” Dick was pleased with his first publication, and it caused him to wonder if he could quit his job at a record store and work full-time as an author.

Lucky for us, Philip K. Dick made that first sale.

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Roog is a science fiction short story, a really, really short story by Philip K. Dick. I was wondering why science fiction stories and novels are called "science" fiction, so I looked it up:

Science Fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas"

I guess it's shorter to write science fiction than technology fiction, or literature of ideas fiction, but I didn't learn any of this stuff in science class. I learned about dirt and clouds and what is inside of earth worms and things like that. I guess it is kind of like science fiction. I don't think I paid much attention in science class, because I can remember the time we were learning about what the earth is made of - I guess - and the teacher caught my attention by asking me what is beneath top soil. My logical answer of bottom soil wasn't right, but I forget what the correct answer was which goes to show how much I needed to know that. Anyway, we don't have to learn about dirt in our story, we get to read about a dog, the dog is our main character, and I love dogs.

Our dog is named Boris, and I feel sorry for the poor dog from the very beginning of the story. No one is happy with Boris, no one is nice to him, not his owners who are always upset with him for sitting in the yard yelling, barking, howling, whatever he is doing, "Roog" over and over again. His owner want him to stop making all that noise, or the neighbors will complain to the police again, so obviously the neighbors aren't thrilled with him either. And the garbage men wish he was far, far away too. This barking problem could be solved if his owners would let him in the house instead of letting him out in the yard all the time. In the chilly morning he is in the yard, if he wasn't he probably wouldn't even know when the "Roogs" were there, he is out in the yard in the heat of the day, he has to lay under the porch then. My dog isn't out in the yard right now, she is curled up on the sofa, tonight she won't be out in the yard, she will be sleeping in our bed under the covers between my husband and me. She won't know who comes to our house. Mailman, garbage man, electric meter reader, she won't hear any of them, the Roogs will be safe.

But at the house where Boris lives, the Roogs may not be safe, perhaps no one is safe. Each time they arrive, they are in a truck, bouncing and crashing against the rough stones. The Roogs leap out of their truck, come down the path, take the "metal cans", dump them in their truck and off they go. The Roogs are garbage men, right? Then why do they.....? Well, I've never actually watched what my garbage men are doing when they come for the garbage, but I am absolutely positive they aren't Roogs. Why won't anyone listen to Boris? Poor Boris. Happy reading.

[Richard Tattoni]

This is a story told from the point of view of Boris and it's about a dog's fear. It's also a story about a dog who cannot convey a message to people he loves. There's wonderful sensory imagery in the tale. The owners don't communicate well with the dog and Alf speaks lazy English himself. The woman is almost annoyed by the dog. Boris is a very keen observer and I wanted to him to see more and speak himself at the end and somehow interfere.

[Kiffaer Long · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this appears to be Dick's first published story, I think you have to consider it in relation to the rest of his work. His pervasive theme in much of his work is: things are not as they appear, and only certain people can see the truth (often those considered "damaged" and/or discarded by society).

I think "Roog" is the first in a long line of these stories. Boris is a dog - an old dog. Not only is his point of view compromised due to his "doggness" but it is further eroded due to his elderly (possibly dementia addled) point of view. This is the perfect Dickian truth-seer. No one, not even the reader, believes Boris. By the end of the story the reader is happy to assume, just like Mr. and Mrs. Cardossi, that the old dog is really just annoyed at the garbage men. Silly dog. Poor silly old dog.

Tragically, only Boris can see the truth, the aliens in the shape of garbage men - garbage men do not eat egg shells from the garbage, nor do they stare ominously at the window of the sleeping (unexpecting) owners. Only aliens with ultimate ill intent do that. What would they do were the offerings not up to their standard, their truck not full? Boris doesn't know, but he knows it would be bad for his owners. There would be a punishment of some kind... he must protect his owners from this... but he's getting older... soon... too soon... his owners will have no guardian to protect them from the evil roogs.

No wonder Boris is incensed, nearly crazed with desperation! Wouldn't you be? They don't understand, they dismiss you, they appear not to care... and yet they are in so much danger. You love them with all your heart - you have, for your entire life. Only if you could tell them... somehow... before it's too late.

[Alex Keller]

Fun little short story, although it’s sad reading about how anxious Boris was. I had similar gripes with this one as I did with “Beyond Lies the Wub”, which is that I think it could’ve been written clearer. Sometimes I didn’t really understand what happened until I got more clues later (and not in a fun way. For example, Boris runs at the Roog on the first page. It’s not super clear that’s what happened, but I figured out that he was trying to attack the Roogs. At the start, it almost seemed like Boris and the Roog were friends). This isn’t a problem I’ve had with any of his book luckily. Either way it’s a clever idea.

[Shhhhh Ahhhhh · Rating 3 out of 5]

...So.... was this ultimately just a story about a dog and the garbage men? Because that's what it seems like.

[Louis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Philip K Dick’s short story “Roog'' tells the story of a dog named Boris. Boris believes there are aliens, which he calls roogs, planning to invade his community. Boris’ masters are confused and troubled by their dog’s anxious and strange behavior, for as what Boris perceives as aliens, his masters perceive as garbage men.

Dick doesn’t clarify which perspective is correct. I enjoy this juxtaposition of different perspectives. It got me thinking about the subjectivity of perception. What a conscious being values is a coloring agent. Dogs are loyal and territorial animals. A foriegn individual entering a dog’s space is a serious threat. Boris’ fearful reaction to the roogs could be a reflection of how startling garbage men are to Boris, while his masters, being social and cooperative animals, hardly take notice of the routine behavior. Conversely, it could be the failure of Boris’ masters to value the security of their territory that allows the roogs to enter. Another thought I had after reading this story is how different creatures and even individuals perceive the same event differently. It can be difficult to communicate across different perspectives, and at times impossible. We see this in Dick’s story when both Boris and his master are frustrated by their inability to understand each other even when they both sense a problem. Thinking about the subjectivity of perspective like this gets me thinking about my own thoughts and how they do not necessarily line up with reality. I think it is important to reflect on how what you perceive lines up with what is really going on; it’s easy to have a biased perspective, and I believe studies have shown that most people do.

Fear in isolation is an anxious condition. I could see how it could lead to paranoia as you are only left with your own thoughts. In “Roog” Dick shows this with Boris mistaking the paper boy in the morning as a roog. It’s as if every outsider is a threat. This phenomenon could be part of the reason why paranoia often comes up with mental illness… Emotions of fear, anxiety, and paranoia come across subtly yet clearly in Dick’s story. I enjoyed that feature of the piece.

I gave the story four stars because although it is good, it is not up there with the most thought-provoking or interesting stories I have read.

[Preetam Chatterjee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this story early—perhaps too early—in my acquaintance with Philip K. Dick. It was one of those stories I encountered almost accidentally, folded into an anthology whose heavier names I was saving for later.

I read it in the late afternoon, sprawled on the floor, book propped against a pillow, thinking I would skim it quickly. Instead, it left me strangely unsettled in a way that only became clear much later.

At first, Roog feels almost comic. The premise is disarmingly simple: a dog barking obsessively at garbage collectors.

I remember smiling at the idea, even feeling mildly indulgent—this was Dick before the paranoia, before the cosmic dread, I thought. But as the story progressed, that smile stiffened. Something about the dog’s perspective began to feel uncomfortably familiar.

What struck me most on first reading was the quiet cruelty of misunderstanding. The dog isn’t mad; he’s alert. He sees what the humans cannot—or will not. And yet, his warnings are interpreted as a nuisance, his vigilance as neurosis. I finished the story with an odd sadness I couldn’t explain. It felt like a parable about intelligence and isolation, about being right in a world that has already decided you’re wrong.

I reread Roog years later, this time sitting on a park bench, watching people scroll through their phones while pigeons fought over crumbs. That’s when the story truly landed. The garbage men weren’t villains. The humans weren’t malicious. And that, I realized, was the most disturbing part. Catastrophe doesn’t always arrive with evil intent—sometimes it comes wrapped in routine.

Dick’s genius here is restraint. There’s no overt revelation, no cosmic explosion. Just a shift in perspective so subtle that you almost miss it. The dog’s fear becomes contagious. And when the end arrives, it feels less like a twist and more like a quiet, irrevocable loss.

Roog stayed with me because it made me question certainty.

Who decides what counts as signal and what gets dismissed as noise?

And how often do we silence the very voices that might be trying to save us—simply because they speak a different language?

Recommended.

[Chari Escudero]

En este peculiar relato corto – 5 páginas- se nos habla de Boris, un perro que ladra a unos seres llamados “roog” que parece que solo puede ver él – o que solo el ve de esa manera-. La misión principal de estos seres es merodear por los cubos de basura del vecindario y, a los ojos de Boris, son dos personajes aterradores.
Este cuento fue el primero que vendió Philip K. Dick y en las notas del volumen “Cuentos completos I” da varios datos sobre el perro y la intención de esta historia que me gustaron incluso más que el relato:

"(…) el nombre auténtico del perro era Snooper, y creía tanto en su mundo como yo en el mío. Su principal trabajo, en apariencia, era cuidar que nadie robara la comida de su cubo de basura particular. Snooper actuaba impulsado por la ilusión de que los propietarios consideraban la basura algo valioso …"


"Roog, mi primer relato vendido, es biográfico; vi al perro sufrir, y comprendí un poco (no mucho quizás, pero un poco) lo que le estaba destruyendo, y sentí deseos de hablar con él. Esa es la pura verdad. Snooper no podía hablar. Yo sí. De hecho, podía escribirlo, alguien podía publicarlo y algunas personas podían llegar a leerlo. Escribir narrativa tiene que ver con esto:convertirse en la voz de aquellos que no la tienen, y espero que me entiendan. No es tu voz, la del autor; son esas otras voces que nadie oye”.

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[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Roog” (written in 1951)
Peculiar. Dog or alien? ***

"Roog" is a story told from the point of view of a dog named Boris, who observes his master's carefully stored food in containers outside of their house day after day. Unbeknownst to the dog, these are the human's trash cans for garbage. The dog is later horrified to witness some food being 'stolen' by garbagemen who the dog knows are predatory carnivores from another planet. The dog comes to know these beings as 'Roogs', and tries to warn his master of each 'theft' with cries of 'Roog!' 'Roog!'. The humans, unable to comprehend the hound's message, think the dog is just being rowdy. Thus they attribute the sound the dog makes to be the sound that all dogs make when they are excited: 'Roog!' 'Roog!' The tale concludes with the animal being somewhat distraught, barking "ROOG!" very loudly at the garbagemen before they make off once more with trash in their garbage truck.
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[William Cherico · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute story about a dog who mistakes the garbagemen for aliens coming to steal his owner's stuff, but it interested me to read that Philip K. Dick considered this to be a pretty serious story. I can kind of see it, too - while my first instinct is to laugh at Boris the dog and smile at the way dogs must perceive human institutions, this is also a fairly heartwarming story about the way our animal friends care for us. Even when they have no idea what's happening, all they know is that they want to protect us and make us happy, and that's beautiful.

[macintosh2000 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love stories that are left ambiguous as to whether what's going on is real or a figment of the main character's imagination. In this case, the POV is of a dog and the mysterious garbage men that it encounters every Friday.

It isn't the most amazing story I've ever read but it's still incredibly creative and interesting; I found it a lot of fun.

Grade: B+
Recommended for: Just read it, it'll take less than 10 minutes.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful little story about the **** our furry friends must go through on a daily basis. Told from a dogs perspective as it tries to fend off the foreboding Roogs. Like most if Dicks stories, it is best to go in cold and this was a lovely little tale that, going against typical Dick standards, didn't leave me with an existential crisis. Beware the Roogs 👀

[Stijn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading his comments on this, you can't do anything but treasure this one. 'Seeing through someone's or something's eyes' as he explained. Well, it doesn't get better than that. His first published story of a wildly amazing repertoire.

[Austin Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't understand this story. I had to read the Wiki. It happens sometimes, haha.

[Nick Seider · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an great short story. Was expecting it to become weirder as the story went on, but in fact by the end everything made sense and I smiled at the ending. I think that means I like this one!

[Joseba Bonaut · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maravillosa idea y el trasfondo. Ponerse en la mente de un perro. Misterio y magia en 18 páginas

[Gr1972 · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 out of 5

[Clayton · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The Cats of Ulthar" for dog people

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am embarrassed to admit that I didn't immediately get it.

But once I got it it gave me a good chuckle.

This story shows Dick's early obsessions with aliens and paranoia.

[Poncho González · Rating 3 out of 5]

Inquietante