Woolly
ShortStory 5,898 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"At five A.M., Joy got a call from the truck stop off the freeway east of the city. Wasn’t the first time. “Did it get dumped? Did it get loose from a truck?” Joy asked. “I don’t know,” the night manager answered. “But it’s digging around in the garbage and you’d better get here before Miles shows up and shoots it.”
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.