All you can feel is the sweaty heat of your fever and the unbearable burning pain in your bones and flesh. It feels like all your bones, especially your legs, back and ribs try to push themselves together, slowly shrinking to fit a smaller body and your body is slowly shrinking with them. You’re no longer aware of what’s happening around you as your mind is filled by fever dreams and the pain. Your body squirms and spasm and your hands claw the floor, your clothes and the air.
It seems like it been an eternity when you come to your senses and the pain decreases. You find yourself on your stomach in your cage and you slowly get up on your knees and weakly look through the cage bars into the dark room. You feel your stomach growling and you discover that you’re absolutely starving. A smell reaches your nose and makes you turn your head, someone have putted a plate with some kind of food that’s seems to have been mashed. Next to the plate there’s a big glass pitcher with water and a glass. You crawl forward to the food and lower your hand and begin to greedily shove the food into your mouth with your hands. Even if it tastes kind of strange and if it has been cooked, then it must have cooled before you woke up, but you still eat it with delight. When you are done, you carefully lick your fingers and the plate to get ever last piece of the food and then you pick up the pitcher and pour the cold water into your mouth and drink the water until the pitcher is empty. Small streams of water run down your chins as you put down the pitcher. You are satisfied… almost too satisfied, as your stomach tells you that you maybe shouldn’t have drunken all that water at once.
When your mind begins to become clear again you notice something. All your clothes seem to have become one seize larger then before… but that’s not the only thing that’s changed. The hair on your body has grown, it now reminds you more of a fur coat then just an unusual large amount of hair. You quickly take your clothes off. Your whole body is the same, covered with the cream colored fur which has a shade of gold and a little red. The only area where you haven’t been too affected is your face, where the fur is much shorter then the rest of your body. You feel your fur with your hand. It’s wet because you have been sweating. At first it seems like nothing else has changed, but then you reach your tailbone with your hand and there you feel a bump, the beginning of a tail.
“Oh, shit…” You says out loud. “You’re not changing are you?” Ask a voice from the darkness. You freeze. “Who and where are you?” A chuckle is heard and a dark figure rises on the other side of the room. “Well you can say that I’m your creator, I’m the one responsible for your situation. Ok, I’m not entirely responsible, you have yourself to blame too” You narrow your eyes and stare at the figure and clench your fists. “What do you mean my fault!? How come this is my fault!?” You shout at the figure, which seem unaffected by your reaction. “Because if you hadn’t been so rude to Carmen, one of our dog handlers when you first got here to the zoo, we would have used someone else for this experiment”
“Why do you do all this?” You ask the dark figure. The figure shrugs. “I don’t know… I like dogs I guess” This lights an anger inside of you and you press yourself against the bars, showing your teeth’s as you almost growl in anger. “Give me a proper explanation or I’ll come out there and strangle you with my bare hands!” You scream at him as loud as your lungs are able to scream. The figure burst into mocking laugh. “No, you won’t. You won’t even get out of the cage and soon two of my personnel will come and take you to that nice male again. You will mate AGAIN and you will change AGAIN and this will repeat itself until the only way you can stand is on all fours. Well, my break is over. It’s time to get back to work....” The figure begins to walk towards the door and as he’s about to open the door he stops. “Now just relax and enjoy your change, because there is no way out of it” The figure quickly opens the door and you hear the sound of footsteps slowly disappearing, but as his footsteps disappear, two new ones approaches. Shit! You think. Not again! As the two lab assistants you know all to well walk into the room.