"Come on, Ginny, come on, hop in... Good girl!"
You are baby-talking to your adorable pet beagle as you coax her up onto the seat of the dilapidated photo booth. She's always eager to take part in your many experiments, usually because they end with playtime and treats. Today she is going to make history, though. She's going to be the first mammalian organism to experience morphic adaption firsthand.
It really shows that you've constructed this contraption out of abandoned parts. The whole thing has a jury-rigged, second-hand feel to it. Thanks to cloud computing, you really don't need that much advanced tech here in the house in order to run the experiment. All you needed was a high bandwidth connection, a single cutting-edge nano-emitter to replace the photo camera, and some shameless crowdfunding to pay for high-volume remote access to a quantum computing center in Osaka. The whole on-site user interface in your basement runs comfortably on your old hand-me-down desktop computer from the late 1980s. The hefty beige keyboard clacks loudly as you enter the subject's name and tap a function key to start the preliminary bioscan. Ginny whimpers as a red light comes on and a soft whirring sound starts up in the photo booth.
The tiny, flickering CRT monitor clears its green monochrome screen to make room for the fresh batch of plain-text data that's popping up letter-by-letter in a dim, typewriter-style font:
-- INITIAL BIOSCAN COMPLETE --
SUBJECT #00001
NAME: GINNY
SPECIES: C. LUPUS FAMILIARIS
EST AGE: 3.42 YEARS
BODY MASS: 9.53 KG
BIO SEX: FEMALE, STERILE
* TYPE D FOR MORE DETAILS
* TYPE C TO MAKE CHANGES
* TYPE S TO SAVE PROFILE
* PRESS F1 FOR MORE OPTIONS
* PRESS ESC TO EXIT
You type C, rub your hands together and grin as a transformation root menu starts to fill up the little green screen. You've programmed the whole thing yourself, and this is the moment of truth. Ginny cocks her head to the side, wondering what the familiar human with the flickering light-box might be up to.