xxxxxx@mail.de wrote:
> I ran across this in Pratchett and Baxter's "The Long War":
>
> "His teeth, eyes, ears, muzzle, nose were all very dog-like, even
> though, Jansson saw, the overall shape of his skull, with a bulging
> brow, might have been humanoid. His face sometimes looked human,
> sometimes wolf-like, like a shifting hologram. His ears were too sharp,
> his eyes too far apart, his grin too wide, his nose too flat with that
> blackened tip... And his eyes, yes, it was like looking into the eyes of
> a wolf."
>
> Humans call them "beagles", and they are carnivorous. I immediately
> started wondering whether Stephen Baxter is familiar with Traveller.
>
> Any other Vargr-like species in SciFi novels?
>
> --
> Carlos Alós-Ferrer

H. Beam Piper's _Lone Star Planet_ (a.k.a. _A Planet for Texans_) has
the z'Srauff:

"The z'Srauff were reasonably close to human stature and appearance,
allowing for the fact that their ancestry had been canine instead of
simian. They had, of course, longer and narrower jaws than we have, and
definitely carnivorous teeth.

"There were stories floating around that they enjoyed barbecued Terran
even better than they did supercow and hot relish."