"..female beagle" Elspeth cackled mischievously.
"Arooo, a female...ruufff...aaarf?!" James protested. Changing species was bad enough but he had assumed he would at least be able to maintain his rightful gender.
"You need to learn that, as my pet, you will be whatever I want you to be, whenever I want to be it" Elspeth looked down at James as he was forced onto all fours, brown, black and white fur now sprouting from every part of his body which he could feel shrinking and reshaping in line with Elspeth's wishes. He was totally under her control now.
"Arf! Ruuf! Aaaarf!" James replied desperately, human language now beyond him as he continued his transition into animal form. He could feel his body reshaping itself at an alarming rate, his hands and feet becoming paws, his face reshaping into a muzzle, his genitals...he didn't even want to think about it.
Before long the changes were complete and a cute, female beagle was sitting at the feet of it's owner. It would have been impossible for anyone to have guessed she was ever a male human and impossible for her to communicate that fact. For the next two days at least, James was Elspeth's pet in every sense of the word.
"Well look at you, aren't you adorable?" Elspeth mocked as she knelt down and stroked James' back "I think for now I shall rename you Jamie. James seems a little...inappropriate."
"Ruff! Arf! Ruff!" Jamie barked back in protest, but the noises she made were indecipherable to Elspeth. The witch picked up a rubber ball from a nearby bowl and threw it across the room.
"There girl, fetch!" Elspeth encouraged her new pet playfully. But Jamie refused to budge, she wasn't prepared to behave like the lowly animal she had been forced into the body of.
"Do you want to stay like that for three days? Four days?" Elspeth threatened, folding her arms purposefully "Now do as I say, you lousy mutt!"
Realising she had no choice, Jamie trotted obediently towards the ball, picked it up with her teeth and made her way back to her mistress. She couldn't believe this - a witch had turned her into a dog and was now ordering her around like one. And who knew what she had planned for her in the longer term.
"Good girl!" Elspeth patted Jamie on the head as she dropped the ball at her feet "I can already see you will make an excellent pet!"