Meanwhile in another part of town and in another vet clinic, another strain of the Man's Best Friend Virus surfaced. This new strain while resembling the first strain in almost every way differed in two areas. The first being that it didn't entirely rely on infected, lusty canines to spread it around to new victims. The second being that it didn't transform its victims into real dogs. Instead the new strain relied not only on infected, lusty canines to spread itself around. It also relied on the fleas that had fed off of those very same canines to do the job. Those that became flea- and virus-infected by the new strain would find themselves transformed in both mind and body into anthropomorphic version of the very same dogs they originally came into contact with. And the first victim of this strain was...