Rabid dog

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A rabid dog, d, is a monster that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. It is a small carnivorous canine that can be seen via infravision.

A rabid has a poisonous bite that is constitution-draining, similar to a rabid rat, and possesses poison resistance. In Hack'EM, rabid dogs cannot be tamed.

Eating a rabid dog corpse or tin does not convey aggravate monster as with domestic canine corpses, but the corpse is poisonous to eat.

Generation

Randomly generated rabid dogs are always created hostile.

Rabid dogs appear among the random d that are part of the first quest monster class for Samurai and make up 24175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Samurai quest.

Strategy

Rabid dogs are one of many early monsters in both variants that provide a nasty surprise for the uninitiated: while technically weaker than a regular dog, it moves just as fast at 16 speed, and their poisonous bite has the same damage as that of the large dog.

Encyclopedia entry

A domestic animal, the _tame dog_ (_Canis familiaris_), of
which numerous breeds exist. The male is called a dog,
while the female is called a bitch. Because of its known
loyalty to man and gentleness with children, it is the
world's most popular domestic animal. It can easily be
trained to perform various tasks.

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