"You know" Naomi told Harry "It's a lot easier for me to cover up these kinds of stunts if you tell me about them."
Harry lowered his head and tail in a submissive posture. "Uh, what stunts?"
"Cutting short Sam's stay, of course. What happened, did Katie put you up to it?"
"Um, yeah."
"Great." Naomi paused. "Well, you probably did the right thing. The 'no exit' clause is pretty dubious legally, and if someone isn't enjoying their stay, there really isn't a reason to keep them here. The bucks seem to have settled down in a stable hierarchy. But put me in the picture next time you and Katie get one of your clever ideas."
Naomi dismissed Harry with a gesture and resumed filling out her personnel requisition forms. Today one of her packmates had informed her that a panthermorph had been asking about pregnancy as a way of getting around having to stay as a feral. Once other morphs figured this out, the park was due for a baby boom, and more huskies would be needed if all the pregnancies were going to be monitored.
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The first question Juanita had to deal with was what to do about Spike. Healing his injury hadn't been much of a challenge, but the management, with Juanita's agreement, had decided to keep him from returning to the herd for fear of reopening the buck wars. Now, it was even more dangerous, as Jeremy's loss of his herd leadership could have bad implications for Leticia's baby.
What remained were a series of bad choices:
Keep Spike doped up and out of it for the remainder of his stay--would be bad for public relations
Return Spike to the herd as a small, young buck unable to challenge for herd leadership--would open him up to violent bullying by every buck he beat in his old form.
Return Spike to the herd as a doe--Well, Juanita thought, at least Naomi would like that idea! But Spike's psychological reaction would not be good, and it would set a bad precedent and be insulting to other transgendered morphs if they thought transgendering was a punishment.
Return Spike to the park as another species of morph--Would undermine one of the basic ideas of the park, that people chose their forms but once they chose them they had to keep them. It would also open up the question of which new form to assign him. Given Spike's aggressive, dominant behavior, it would probably better not to assign him a social species where he could resume his plans to take over the park, but giving him the claws and teeth of a nonsocial predator also seemed to be a bad idea.