"A pig", she said.
Cady's shoulder slumped as her jaw dropped. At the table her father sheepishly put down a slice of bacon he was about to eat. Doing so would be in poor taste.
"Are you certain?" Cady asked with a glimmer of hope that her mother had made some mistake.
Her mother nodded and handed her the papers.
Cady stared blankly at the papers as it all began to set in to her - soon she would be off to the centre to be transformed into a sow. "Why couldn't I have been a dog, like Whitney Stephens, or a horse, like Jamie Sumter?"
As she continued through the papers she asked "Does it say whether I'll be a breeder sow or a feeder sow?"