![]() ![]() After several years Romochka becomes the leader of the pack, but he's also come to the attention of a research centre that specializes in homeless children with developmental problems. The dogs also hunt in the fields and forest nearby, eating anything from grasshoppers to moles to cats. ![]() The pack's territory is on the edge of Moscow and centres around a huge rubbish dump that is a source of food for both dogs and those dwelling in an adjacent shantytown. Romochka suckles from her and eventually learns to hunt with the pack. In short order he's adopted into the dog clan, which is headed by Momochka, a female. ![]() After several days scrounging food in the apartment block, Romochka ventures out into the city and follows a feral dog back to its den. Her Mowgli is Romochka, a four-year-old Russian boy who wakes up one morning to find that his family (his mother and uncle) and all the other tenants of a crumbling apartment block on the outskirts of Moscow have decamped. It would be so easy to call this novel a modern take on Kipling's The Jungle Book, but that would do a disservice to Hornung's book, which is emphatically not for kids or the faint of heart. ![]()
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