Rowf was raised in a scientific research facility, where he and Snitter are tortured for experimental purposes. After they were rescued in the book, Rowf let go of his hatred of humans and went to live on a happy life with Snitter's master. When Snitter began to lose hope, Rowf finally felt a sense of hope and urged Snitter to keep swimming on. When he and Snitter were cornered on a shoreline by the military, Rowf reluctantly heads out to sea with Snitter to find the island and to avoid getting killed. However, after the Tod returned and saved him and Snitter from a hunter hired by the whitecoats to kill them, Rowf began to trust the Tod more and apologized for driving him away. When he and Snitter met the Tod, Rowf was accurate to believe that the fox was an untrustworthy creature who takes advantage of them in order to get a meal, even driving him away for selfishly eating a nest of chicken eggs by himself.

Rowf's behavior in the novel is more wrathful and aggressive and he states that he hates all humans. He acts realistic and believes that Snitter's hopes of finding a caring and kind master are futile. The drowning experiments he endured were also the result of him developing a crippling fear of water. How can anything be good in a place like this?īecause of his water immersion experiments performed by the whitecoats and not having any kind master, Rowf became extremely pessimistic and had a cynical view of humanity as a result.

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