Help me remember title and author of this old sf story
May 30, 2023 3:56 PM   Subscribe

Crew-cut human space explorers land on a planet and discover nothing but a lot of very cute, friendly dogs — some of whom the humans adopt. At some point, one of the space explorers realizes that canine cuteness and friendliness might be a sophisticated evolutionary strategy to get humans to take care of canine needs. One of the dogs intercepts this thought and successfully plots to kill the human who has discovered the canine plot. The end.
posted by PaulVario to Media & Arts (1 answer total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
That sounds like Into your tent I'll creep
by Eric Frank Russell.
posted by monotreme at 8:13 PM on May 30, 2023 [1 favorite]


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