"It would be cool to be something exotic like a lion or a bear." Jeff said. "But I am guessing you are going to need a familiar that isn't going to attract too much attention, right?"
Rais nodded. "The familiar has to be a fairly common animal around these parts. And it has to be one that I can easily keep around the house."
Jeff shrugged before smiling again at his reflection in the mirror. It felt so weird to be a kid again. To be so young and prepubescent and yet have a mind that was much older than the body suggested.
"I know what you can turn me into. How about a large dog?" Jeff told his friend as he ran some fingers through his mop of hair. "A large, shaggy dog."
Rais laughed. "An excellent suggestion, I happen to like large, shaggy dogs."
He walked over and knelt down besides his friend.
"I'll change you slowly into a dog so you can watch your transformation as it happens." Rais told him reassuringly.
He reached out with his left hand and passed it an inch over his friend's hairless chest. Jeff's chest began to deepen and broaden as his skin began to sprout a very fine layer of white fuzz. The white fuzz in turn began to rapidly thicken into a shaggy fur coat. Rais waved his hand down his friend's belly and began to leave behind a trail of white and then dark blue merle fur in his wake. The white and dark blue merle fur then began to spread outward like fire across paper.
Jeff shivered slightly as he felt Rais' magic flow deeply into him. He could feel and see that his body was changing into a dog's but it didn't look painful at all to him. Instead the sight and feel of his body changing looked completely natural to him and strangely appropriate to him, like it was meant to be. He leaned into his friend as he reached down with both hands to the front and back of Jeff's hips.
"Very good Jeff, you are taking your transformation into a large Old English Sheepdog quite well." Rais told his friend. "Now here is something for you to enjoy."
With one of his hands, Rais teased out a stumpy tail from a spot above Jeff's hips. And with his other hand, he uncircumcised Jeff and covered up his changing prepubescent privates with a layer of skin and shaggy fur.
Rais then worked on massaging the rest of Jeff's body into the stocky, bear-like form of an Old English Sheepdog. Jeff's arms became a new pair of legs for him and his hands became a pair of useable pair of shaggy paws. More white and blue merle fur covered his body till his entire body had become that of a large, Old English Sheepdog. Only Jeff's head remained human atop a thick, canine neck.
"Let me finish off your transformation now, my large shaggy playmate."
Rais began stroking Jeff's ears until they dropped to the sides of his large shaggy head. He then began to stroke his cheeks till both of Jeff's wet black nose and mouth pushed out into a muzzle. And with a wave of his hand he pushed a layer of shaggy white fur over his friend's eyes. Jeff began to pant contentedly as his head finally took on the shaggy countenance of an Old English Sheepdog. He begin to think less and less like his former self and more like his new canine self. Human reasoning and intelligence mixed with canine instincts to make him act and behave the way Rais wanted him to be, an intelligent canine familiar. After a long period of not truly trusting Rais for his strange habits, Jeff was truly now his friend.
"There you go boy!" Rais said and smiled as he patted the shaggy head of a young male Old English Sheepdog. "You are definitely now the familiar that I have been looking for. Good Dog!"
Jeff panted happily at his master and friend. He was so lucky to have Rais as his owner.Both of them were so happy. Rais and his sheepdog familiar Jeff.