Roog by Philip K. Dick

A domestic dog narrates with urgent, simple intelligence about an ongoing crisis: every week strange figures come at night to steal the family's refuse, and the dog—convinced they are monstrous, predatory beings—barks warnings that its human companion cannot or will not understand; its efforts to protect are dismissed and punished, leaving the dog isolated in a world where human perception and communication fail to recognize a very real threat, and where the boundary between care and cruelty is unsettlingly thin.