# Kevvy

Author: KevinFoxboy
Tags: Chimera, Fantasy, Fox, Human, Male, Series, Slavery

#22 of KFB

"Kevvy" (c) 2010 Kevin Foxboy, all rights reserved. A bit mixed up, musings about Kevin's continuing education.

. Kevin Foxboy's Neighborhood - 2010-0719.0615  
  
. . (c) 2010 Kevin Foxboy, all rights reserved.  
  
The forty-something woman in the family restaurant looked up  
curiously as the lithe, athletic woman in her late twenties came  
in, but what surprised the older woman was the fact the newcomer  
was leading a human-sized but animal-headed furry... thing...  
on its leash.  
  
"Hello, there. I'm Alysa. Benton." She'd noticed the older woman  
nervously glancing over at Alysa's pet and introduced herself.  
"Carrie Williams", the older woman responded, shaking Alysa's  
free hand. The beast had dropped to its knees as soon as its...  
owner... stopped walking.  
  
The DNA-hybrid program was still new enough people hadn't gotten  
used to them. A company in Butte Montana USA had started a  
medical branch, making blood plasma and insulin using recombinant  
DNA. A completely synthetic approach, it took over from the previous  
method, using /Escherichia coli/ bacteria as biological factories,  
because the bugs had mutated into something dangerous.  
  
The fledgling Biological Synthetics Incorporated had reused its  
profits for further research. While Ventner and the government were  
trying to map the whole human genome last decade (and century,  
and -- gulp -- millennium) BSI Medical just made blood and bone  
cells, then whole organs. Still synthetic but fully organic, they weren't  
rejected, had a few weeks waiting list as they were 'quick-grown'  
and completely rewrote the medical profession.  
  

&nbsp; No more black market for organs, no more unwilling donor nightmares.  
No more extensive tests or exploratory surgery to find out what went  
wrong with natural organs, just BSI Recom-based tests to see what  
organ to replace. The synthetic ones were immune to most existing  
diseases, and odd enough the diseases couldn't figure out how to  
attack them before dying out!  
  
People were still idiot enough to drive while distracted or try to  
'prove their manhood' with stunts Evel Knievel wouldn't think of, so  
BSI Med started making nerves and brain tissue. Not memory, that  
was lost; but Alzheimer's and any mental illness caused by damage  
went the way of the dodo. Extinct, left on the sands of time by BSI.  
  
Then BSI put all the organs together in synthetic bodies! Mindless  
but utterly obedient, sci-fi's worst nightmares realised. There was  
a big backlash, bombing and burning of BSI's labs, until all the  
'zombies' were rounded up and destroyed. The hospitals screamed  
because they needed the blood and organs to put foolish humans back  
together. So BSI Version Two was born, and mixed human with animal  
DNA to make made-to-order chimerae.  
  

&nbsp; ~ ~ ~  
  
They were still idiots. Bodies were easy, brains were just neurons,  
but minds, they're hard! How does a bunch of unconnected cells  
make patterns even in a dumb animal, so it can run away from  
predators or chase prey? BioSyn Labs made idiot laborers and security  
guards, just a little brighter than guard dogs. But they never went  
on strike or complained. And they were totally obedient.  
  
Alysa Benton worked for a tech firm that reverse-engineered  
existing tech and made it better. That way it was enough different to  
avoid lawsuits, and originators didn't mind when they realised it was  
just another step they could incorporate in their own next invention.  
One of her clients was BioSyn Labs, and she talked with them enough  
to make improvements in their DNA synthesizers and control computers.  
  
Hot!Tech replaced the cutting-edge tech with unknown-cutting Kawa  
Suki AutoSynths and HTOS MUMT computers that took advantage  
of the structural similarities in groups of living animals. So now they  
could use extinct DNA to modify a creature and make a new dodo,  
quagga, thylacine.  
  

&nbsp; Who cared if human idiocy had made a species go extinct? BioSyn  
magic could undo it, make a whole species live again. Frankenstein's  
monster? Ha! Mary Shelley was passe, the new Modern Prometheus was  
born. So scientists playing God wanted the next challenge. They added  
limited minds to chimera, made human-sized bipedal animals as servants.  
  
Why not? Humans domesticated animals, taught em to find lost  
people, help police find evidence. BioSyn Labs made chimerae stronger  
and faster than humans, BSI Medical needed hospital help, so chimerae  
became orderlies and turned bed-ridden patients over. Too dumb to get  
bored or frustrated.  
  
The patients went home, but still needed help. BioSyn's beasts  
became household servants. Brighter than dogs, more submissive than  
housecleaning services. Better than anything else, said BioSyn Kennels.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Alysa Benton had read through BioSyn Kennel's product catalog and  
picked out a fox-human DNA mix. Foxes were common first personal  
servants because they were big enough to do medium-duty housework but  
small enough to command, er, other places. She went back six months  
later to see her product in the artificial womb and imprint its mind.  
  

&nbsp; It was annoying to have to wait, but they couldn't teach the beast's  
mind as fast as they made bodies. It would take eighteen months  
to train the idiot to walk, obey, talk, and do housework. And serve its  
owners, uh, personal wishes too. Alysa had to wait two years from  
when she first ordered R4G2/KvN47 until he was delivered to her  
door in a travel cage, to begin his life of slavery to her.  
  
Back to the restaurant, remember? It was a social shift to allow  
DNA mixes in public places. They took care of their own hygiene  
and were quite acceptable to local health codes, but it was still a  
surprise to see a lone woman across a table from a fox head as her  
property knelt on the floor.  
  
Alysa had owned Kevin for a year now and the foxboy was as old  
as a human at seventeen. He'd learned to wear clothes and drive  
a car for his mistress, as well as serve her personal and household  
needs. As Alysa and Carrie talked, the beast stayed motionless on his  
furry knees. It wasn't his place to listen to humans, and Alysa would  
raise her voice to get his attention when she wanted him.  
  

&nbsp; In a more expensive restaurant, the valets and doormen might be  
property. The head waitstaff and chefs would be human, but busboys  
and dishwashers were furry DNA mixes. There were places where most  
of the staff were slave property, and would offer themselves as, um,  
entertainment. In the decades to follow, low-economic-group people  
who'd had minimum-wage jobs would cede them to unpaid slaves, and  
become their supervisors and masters.  
  
Slaves weren't bright enough to be unhappy at doing menial tasks.  
They were made that way on purpose; they had trouble with  
multisyllable words except 'submission' or 'obedience'. They'd  
get confused if you didn't talk simply. Not baby-talk, but you'd  
have to remember to call something 'fake' instead of 'artificial'.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Actually, BioSyn Labs had made beasts progressively more  
intelligent, just to understand what humans commanded. The early  
ones had trouble learning anything outside the closed environment  
of their kennels. Kevin was one of the brightest slaves, and foxes  
were pretty sly anyway, but he still forgot what 'recombinant DNA'  
meant and thought of himself as a 'seed mix'. And he didn't know the  
word 'understand', you'd have to say 'Kevin, do you know what I mean?"  
  

&nbsp; Some people got frustrated easily. Look, if it's just a dumb dog,  
you don't expect it to answer you or know your words. Sure, a  
Hungarian Puli sheepdog knows over a hundred words, but it's all  
having to do with herding sheep, not a philosophical discussion.  
If you hear a DNA mix ask you "Are you ready to order, Master?"  
as it stands on two feet, you might try to converse with it.  
  
But unless you ask about something on the menu, it's too dumb  
to know. Even if you ask about food, it's too dumb to make recom-  
mendations, or even know the word. "Is the fois gras good tonight?"  
is a complete waste of your time, and you'll just get frustrated by the  
dumb expression on its muzzle. It's better to pay extra for a human.  
  
Alysa and Carrie talked over dinner, and Alysa remembered to  
order kibble for Kevin. When the Badger she'd called over to bring  
it asked if she wished water for herself or a bowl for the beast, she  
told it (well he, but who cared?) to run a little tap water in. The  
beast bowed politely, replied "Yes, Mistress" and backed away. She'd  
never know he'd had to ask his human supervisor what she meant.  
  

&nbsp; When the Badger returned, he asked Alysa if she wished her beast  
fed. She said yes, so he bowed then knelt to place it for Kevin. Both  
slaves knew not to speak without a direct order, but Kevin's quick  
grin gave the Badger his thanks as he thanked his owner. Kevin knelt  
to eat his kibble, keeping his bushy tail down and his front paws  
folded, palms off the floor. He enjoyed the gravy from the kibble,  
and waved his tail to show he was happy.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Of course, every beast there had a better sense of smell than humans,  
and they were owned by the restaurant to sniff out bad food before it  
got to humans. Health inspectors liked the beasts for keeping the  
vermin down, although rat breath on the cat mixes was unpleasant.  
And bug breath, yuck! But the beasts cleaned themselves and kept  
the kitchens and pantries much cleaner.  
  
Exterminators had rather a tough time, till they figured out they  
could beat the damn tree-huggers by using 'totally green and bio-  
safe vermin elimination techniques', i.e. buy a few cat mixes and let  
'm do what came natural. These mixes didn't need much intelligence,  
they were barely above dumb animal cats, which mouse and rat all  
by themselves, just leave em the heck alone.  
  

&nbsp; But mixes eat and clean up too. Artificial life-forms don't have  
civil rights, not even animal-abuse protection; and BioSyn sold  
a lot of cleaners so the price went down. A pet gets sick, it's an  
expensive trip to the vet; a slave, eh. If it dies, in the dumpster,  
another is just a business expense. Several R3 cleaners, too dumb to  
know anything else, maybe an R4G1 easier to talk to, tells the others.  
  
You thought /Jurassic Park/ velociraptors were dangerous pack  
hunters? These would obey humans, stop when ordered! But keep killing  
rodents, even trace where they came in, wait for more food. Heck,  
they'd even bait 'em, eat bait themselves if nothing came to take it.  
  
So it wasn't a shock to know the restaurant owned mixes, or let  
'em come inside; but a 1.5 meter tall, slightly bent-legged fox-  
faced one was a bit new. Carrie had thought about owning someone,  
er some\*thing\* but wasn't sure. Now she liked seeing, uh, Kevin on  
his furry knees, so submissive but stronger and faster than humans.  
A powerful beast, totally obedient.  
  

&nbsp; Kevin Foxboy Four Seven enjoyed being a display for his owner Alysa  
Benton as well as an advert for his maker BioSyn Kennels. Carrie  
wasn't that familiar with mixes, only talked with waitfurs to order  
food, so she kept expecting Kevin to say something. Of course the  
beast wouldn't speak unless ordered to or to answer a direct question.  
  
And he wasn't bright enough to take a hint, and far too submissive  
to interrupt the Mistresses. Carrie's curiosity finally made her ask  
the fox to explain himself, and only got a puzzled muzzle in  
return. She was about to get angry at Kev when Alysa laid a friendly  
hand on hers.  
  
Alysa ran through more specific, simple questions with her property.  
Kevin was BioSyn's fourth level, second generation DNA mix, hence  
R4G2; and the fourteenth variant of their eleventh DNA line, hence  
KvN. He was the 47th 'K' mix, hence R4G2/KvN47, and the woman  
guiding the seed mix formula wasn't very imaginative, hence Kevin.  
  
Trained to serve in the home, and to please men or women on  
the floor and in the bed, Kevin was little more than a trained dog.  
Sure, dogs are quite useful to humans, and chimerae in general were  
useful servants. But the annoying thing is, they do so well, even  
though they're made 'mentally challenged' to keep them submissive.  
Some insecure humans find that insulting.  
  

&nbsp; ~ ~ ~  
  
The foxboy walked nearly upright and talked simple English;  
he'd learned the complexity of reading, driving a car, and flying a  
small aircraft. Once he learned, he wasn't bright enough to get bored,  
so he did it better than humans. That's what was so annoying: chimerae  
have better eyesight, hearing, taste, and smell than humans, and react  
faster too -- BioSyn says the products are better, stronger, faster.  
  
But although they see movement better, and work in dimmer light  
and farther away, they're not so good close up (say two muzzle-lengths)  
or with little color differences. Sure Kev saw color, but had trouble  
telling the difference between small hue and saturation differences.  
Keep it to black, green, blue, blue-green, red, blue-red, brown, white.  
Oh, and yellow or purple, but he'd have to think to remember what  
cyan and magenta mean. Forget chartreuse!  
  
It's an interesting psychological study (not that any R4 could  
pronounce it!) that Kev learned simple things fairly easily. The whip  
taught him that in the kennels growing up. They didn't have to make  
sense to the young foxboy. As he grew up he figured out he could do  
some new things that were like what he knew, and he could put actions  
together to get a less-simple result.  
  

&nbsp; Sit up. Hold your front paws out. Grip the handles. Move them  
gently. See how the car moves? Slow, fast; slow, stop. See the red  
thing? It's a square with corners cut off, you don't need the word  
'octagon'. It means Stop! at the post. Check for other cars. Look  
carefully, see them move.  
  
Kevin was a carnivore, used to judging prey's movement and  
distance to pounce and feed. Sure cars were faster, but Kev reacted  
quicker than humans, only needed to know they meant danger when  
they got too close. Kevin knew very clearly to stay away from the  
rough polar bear guards in the kennels, and cars were just bigger  
things to stay away from. He didn't need to know Lexus or BMW.  
  
He wasn't bright enough to get bored, so his attention never  
wavered. He had trouble listening and driving, so Alysa didn't try  
to converse with her beast, just waited for a pause then directed him.  
As I said, he was a very good driver for his owner. The laws don't say  
what species you have to be to get a licence; it'd actually been only  
two years since Kevin's DNA was mixed and he grew in the artificial  
womb, 18 months since he was 'born', but his DNA was tweaked so he'd  
keep the rapid body development and he'd been as old as a human at 16.  
  

&nbsp; He learned to drive a car from hearing his owner read the book, and  
he knew what numbers looked like. At first he needed a human to  
read street signs, but he learned that too. He passed his drivers' test  
first time, knew the laws he'd been told and of course never knew what  
being aggressive meant. He was always very polite and obedient. He  
was a good foxboy. He was even skilled enough to parallel-park without  
hitting the cones.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Kevin Foxboy enjoyed visiting the vet, even when he wasn't at the  
BioSyn Kennel he grew up in. A sexy vixen had taught him to obey  
the chains, and when she was hurt by a human who wasn't really cruel,  
just treated her as the dog she was and discarded her, Kev'd held her  
down for the vet to explore her. He enjoyed Betty Foxgirl.  
  
Near his owner's home the vet handled dumb animals as well as  
the newer chimerae. It was enjoyable to be able to talk with beasts,  
usually vets have to be more skilled to work on animals who can't  
say how they feel. You have to feel them yourself.  
  
Kevin had grown up using cage straw for his body needs, and got  
used to the smell. It was just part of life, like paws and tail. He  
was aware of the smell of the vet's kennel, and disliked the tang  
of the medicines, but he submitted. Sure injections hurt, but he'd  
been whipped to make him obey, and that was worse. The vets always  
told him what they were doing, so he could relax and be a slave.  
  

&nbsp; Alysa Benton worked for a tech firm, and didn't have time to  
babysit a pet. One of the things about being a chimera was Kevin took  
care of himself, cleaned her home, cooked her meals. And served in the  
bedroom. He was almost as big as she was, big enough to be a useful  
house servant, small enough to stay on his knees.  
  
At the local vet, Kevin was able to help with the other chimerae  
and dumb animals. His furry body seemed to comfort them, they  
scented his animal parts and he had a kind of low-minded rapport. He  
saw the human pushing at a desk, and begged to know what she was  
doing. The vet was talking about his care, so he wasn't scared to ask.  
  
She seemed a bit surprised; she worked with animals around but  
wasn't used to talking with them. But she wasn't mad Kevin interrupted  
her, and told him the vet records were kept on a computer. Kevin was  
quite interested, and begged his owner to let him learn.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Kevin had been made to be afraid of anything new, to keep him low  
and submissive. This was a new trait, and Alysa had wanted a beast  
to help her, so she was pleased. She gave her permission to the fox,  
who wore only the fur and leather cuffs of his slavery. He saw the  
large set of buttons with marks and was getting afraid of new, but  
the vet had finished with Kevin for the day and the record tech was  
willing to talk.  
  

&nbsp; Kevin saw the marks and took a few seconds before it dawned on  
him they were the ones he'd learned. Letters, numbers, and -- what?  
She giggled and said a new word, symbols. Each button had a meaning,  
and told the computer what to put down in the vet records.  
  
It was a Hot!Tech machine, as most business computers were  
nowadays. Workers were adult, so they used words; only two-year-olds  
have to point to pictures and grunt. Most of the data -- that is, raw  
facts -- were text anyway. Owner name, pet, date, service, test result.  
  
When it became information -- organized data you could draw  
conclusions from -- it was sometimes useful to make tables and charts.  
It was still just text, with markers when a sketch would help. That  
would appear on the second LED screen, so you could see the facts  
and the sketch. But don't just show a picture, say what it means!  
  
Even when you take an X-Ray, you don't really need all that  
information. You just need, "aha! there's a small fracture, right  
there" or "see that smudge? that needs a closer look". You don't  
need to see the fracture to treat it, just know it exists. Wherever it is,  
you immobilise the area and let nature heal. Of course with BioSyn  
medicine, you help nature a lot; recom DNA tests identify illness,  
and recom white cells gobble it up.  
  

&nbsp; And why bother with medical jargon? What does 'Ulnar fracture'  
tell you that 'lower arm break' doesn't? Or 'Phalangic Phlebitis' say  
different from 'finger swelling'? C'mon, people, don't make it more  
difficult than it has to be!  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
When you draw conclusions -- turn organized facts into actions  
-- you create knowledge. Facts are useless unless organised, and  
it's a bit OCD to just make structure, but knowledge is power. Who  
cares that dozens of things just exist? How is it useful to put them  
in boxes? That's not a goal in itself, it's just a means to an end.  
  
DNA has three billion codes, but it's just so much goo until you  
realise it's arranged in groups, call em genes then chromosomes.  
That's just so much busy-work till you figger out some diseases are  
caused by little differences in DNA. Now you're talking knowledge!  
  
Now you can make little bio-docs, carry copies of non-disease  
DNA into cells. When they split in a few days, cut out the old DNA,  
stick the new DNA in -- et voila! You've just cured diabetes, or  
anemia! How's that for medical power, hmm?  
  

&nbsp; Yeah, I know there's a problem -- ethics. Be careful what you wish  
for, you just might get it. But remember Murphy's Law? It's been  
said that Murphy was an optimist! Even when you're sure nothing  
can go wrong, something will go wrong.  
  
No matter how much care you take to idiot-proof some process,  
some enterprising idiot will find a way to mess things up, get bad  
data in, and the machine can't tell the difference, so bad info gets  
used, organised, and wrong conclusions are made. Start with wrong  
info, perfect logic leads to perfectly logical wrong answers!  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
It was these contrasting needs which chimera slaves pointed out so  
clearly. So annoyingly to some people, and labor unions. R4G2 slaves  
were bright enough to learn the rote work, and as long as you stated  
the rules clearly, they'd follow.  
  
They were too dumb to get bored or try to do something different just  
for variety. That meant a human would have to step in, because mixes  
didn't have 'common sense' either. Common for whom, huh human?  
Mixes have animal sense, and human training. Sometimes they conflict.  
  

&nbsp; What you or I would find 'obvious' is often cultural, and it's different  
elsewhere. 'Everybody knows' to drive on the right -- unless you're in  
Britain or a former colony. 'Everybody knows' brides wear white --  
umless you're in Asia, where white is the color of death.  
  
Car companies have similar cultural and language blindspots. When  
Chevrolet tried to export their Chevy Nova -- quite popular in the  
United States -- they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't sell in Mexico.  
Finally someone pointed out they speak a version of Spanish there,  
and in Spanish, 'no va' means "doesn't go" -- not good for a car.  
  
Kevin had learned simple American English -- since he was made in  
America for an American. Other chimerae were brought up in different  
kennels, and their minds were shocked to learn Spanish, or French, or  
Italian.  
  
In case you didn't know, the Catholic Church bought some chimerae  
watchdogs -- despite them not mentioned in their holy writing. Some  
of the Cardinals in the Vatican have chimera kitty maids, or birds or  
lizards -- and they're beast enough to keep the men's chastity vows.  
  

&nbsp; Which brings me back to restaurants having chimerae, and Kevvyboy  
being shown to patrons. He'd been part of the Biological Synthetics  
Kennels shows at various cosplay and furry conventions, and some  
people got upset that chimerae don't wear clothes -- neither does  
your family dog, but she's not standing up and offering... er, to fetch  
food and drink.  
  
Kevvy and a few Mousegirls had fetched more, but email me for details.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Kevin had learned to read street signs and grocery labels, at least what  
food it was. He had trouble with all the big words that said what was in  
food and what it gave people. He was happier with his slave kibble and  
Vulpine add-food packs. He didn't know why Humans would \*want\* to  
have to make choices.  
  
He'd helped the local Vet with rote typing of records. He didn't have to  
know what the big medical words meant, just type what the notes said.  
Alysa Benton was willing to rent him out in lieu of paying vet bills, so  
it helped them both.  
  
Nadine Berring was less thrilled about the smelly beast taking over. In  
case you didn't know, chimerae tend to have beasty bodies, and although  
they take showers using fur soap, all that underarm and groin fur means  
they don't use deodorant.  
  

&nbsp; And animal foxes smell. Oh, the caudal gland is said to smell like violets,  
but it's not something you'd want all over the house. If a beast gets hot  
doing labor, it pants, even the non-canids.  
  
Kevin had fox odor. Well, people have Human odor, and Kev was a beast,  
so he used scent more than sight to pick out which was which. Except  
a few, like the kennel vets, and Betty Foxgirl.  
  
And of course his Owner, Alysa Benton of Butte, Montana, USA.  
  
Nadine didn't mind Kevin doing the transcribing. After all, it was dull and  
boring, precisely the things people bought slave beasts for. She had him  
help her, she could sort of read the vets' handwriting. Something Kev had  
such trouble with.  
  
It gave her a thrill, so there you dumb beast, when Kevin had to whimper  
and beg for her help. Even when she told him what the handwriting said,  
he had trouble the next time. It was satisfying to know there was still a  
place for good ol' Mark One Mod Zero, original-recipe humans.  
  
One of the younger Vets was a Furson, a Mark One Mod One. Bill Harson  
had Gone Otter, and had some American River Otter DNA added to his  
natural Southern California heritage. He seemed not to mind the smell  
so much, even before he had BioSynLabs put in the rounded ears and  
sharper teeth, like a carnivore.  
  

&nbsp; And the longer muzzle, nostrils and jaws. Heck, he liked the look on the  
chimerae as well as the dumb dogs at Merik's Vet Services, so he took his  
summer vacation in Butte. He especially liked the luxurious silky brown fur.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
Nadine was a bit upset when Bill came back from vacation furry. She was  
human and proud of it. She wasn't a vet herself, she wanted to work with  
other humans. She was willing to help with the dumb beasts, and OK the  
practice was big enough to have three regular vets, and four part-timers.  
  
She was upset at first to have to work with a fox chimera. The fox odor was  
stronger than an animal fox, because Kev was short-human size. He was  
skinny and muscular, and went around in just the fur most of the time. His  
owner wanted his fox bits covered when he wasn't pleasing her at home,  
so he wore rough unbleached men's bikini briefs that hid him decently.  
  
But the male slave's bulges showed, and he'd grown up in the kennel unclothed  
so he knew it was normal. He wore the usual two-inch-wide bought slave's  
leather collar, wrist and ankle cuffs, with all the sexy metal D-rings so humans  
could tie him to things and feel him up. That also was totally normal.  
  

&nbsp; Bill of course had been born fully human, but now his Otter DNA made him a  
Mod One. The Furson was still getting used to the new body, and spoke with  
Kev about fur grooming. Kev had grown up around different species of canids,  
and learned about felids, mustelids and rodents soon after.  
  
Biological Synthetics Kennels lets lots of species play and learn together, to  
get the beasts to stop shaking from the New. Kev had trained with an older  
Gray Fox vixen, and rubbed her up a lot when she was sick with fear when  
her buyer was killed.  
  
He trained with a Ratgirl and a guy Otter when it was time to learn about  
hugging and then sex. The Kennels trained domestic and pleasure slaves  
after all. Most of the R4G1 domestics were too dumb to have sex drive, but  
they could learn to please. Kevin and Joz were R4G2 pleasure chimerae  
and learned ways to please men and women, in the home, on the floor, and  
in the bed.  
  
Bill was not the first Furson to command Kev, so the fox didn't shake at  
obeying someone with fur. Nadine disapproved, because they were both  
guys, and she wanted to test Kev's training herself. As long as she didn't  
moan while sitting at her desk with Kev on his knees or lower, it wasn't  
a social problem.  
  

&nbsp; Now I don't know if Bill Harson thought about the fur care issue when he  
Went Otter, or the fact the shower at home had become fun but restrictive.  
What his new DNA wanted was bigger, not just a bathtub but a swimming  
pool, and sure the techs at BSI Labs had warned him about new urges, but  
there'd been a lot of legal junk to read and sign.  
  
Kevin shook a bit when a Master asked him about fur care, but Bill was firm  
so the fox could relax and Be a Slave. They talked about Bill's new senses,  
which Kev knew were normal but Bill had to adapt to. Were the office lights  
always so bright, and did they always blink bright and dim? Kev grew up  
seeing flicker when he moved his head and it had been a surprise humans  
didn't.  
  
Was it always so damn noisy indoors?! No wonder the animals were upset,  
even when ordinary humans thought they were being quiet. The Otter had  
to adjust to seeing distant small objects clearly and not focusing close in.  
And colours! All of a sudden so vibrant, all of them! He just didn't see fine  
differences anymore.  
  

&nbsp; And then the smells! Humans disliked animal smells, preferring chemical  
ones like disinfectants. Fursons' enhanced olfactory skills shocked them,  
took a lot of getting used to. Did the normal vet disinfectant always have  
that unpleasant tang to it?! Sheesh, he could even smell the difference  
between rubbing alcohol at 70%, and medical at 90%, something his  
M1M0 vet colleagues couldn't!  
  
Then there was the feel of clothing on his new fur. Bill had never had such  
trouble when his Otter pelt was rubbed the wrong way! Oh gosh, being... er,  
petted... felt so good! No wonder the cats purred, the dogs whimpered softly,  
the others let you do them. Kevin smiled and let the man enjoy. He knew all  
about being petted, and how his Mistress made him react.  
  
~ ~ ~  
  
One of the other things Bill still had was his human mind. Chimerae grew up  
with inhuman senses, and their minds developed to know what they meant.  
Fursons were used to dull Human senses, and his mind was still trying to adapt.  
  
He also had trouble adapting to his new body, especially the big heavy tail.  
He'd been to Butte and played with the slaves' tails, because most of them  
were big and fluffy. Especially their tails.  
  

&nbsp; But otters are semi-aquatic, and their tails are used as rudders during  
swimming. Fully submerged they're quite balletic despite the thick fur,  
on the surface you have to look forward of the wake. On shore there's  
the wet trail.  
  
Bill had Gone Otter and gotten the fur, tail, and ears. He hadn't gone back  
for the snout or whiskers, and he asked Kev if the fox saw his own. Kev  
was used to being asked by now and didn't shake.  
  
Since it was their lunch break the two furries were out back soaking in  
the sun. Kev was curled up on a blanket with his bushy tail on his black  
nose, looking a lot like a big animal, and Bill had developed quite a taste  
for tuna sandwiches or sushi. Kev's body was as developed as a human's  
at seventeen, and he was able to drive a car with a human's supervsion.  
  
But he wasn't old enough to drink beer legally, despite the fact he'd been  
tested on it before leaving BioSynKennel. There were quite a number of  
advantages of being just a slave beast, and one was he wasn't legally  
a person, so no legal rights beyond being property, but no citizen  
responsibilities either.  
  

&nbsp; It was legally a human at fault for letting Kev drive a car, or drink beer, or do  
what he was made for. Any R4G2 is trained to serve any gender any time, in  
the home, on the floor. Or in the bed. And Kev knew his duties quite well.  
  
Kev's sexy skinny fox snout stuck out, and he could easily see it between his  
eyes. He couldn't focus that close, any more than humans can see their own  
flat noses clearly. He had to be taught that he had what he saw on other foxes.  
  
Kev spoke with Master Furson, and he'd been a display at furry conventions  
so he didn't shake. Master tried to be patient even when he realised Kev's  
change of voice was due to the fox remembering to be a salesfur for Biological  
Synthetics Kennels.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/Xnr2xdjn
Part of the series KFB
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