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In Wolfhome, a ‘shelter’ is anything but. Humans in matching uniforms with painful equipment for controlling animals cram them into tiny, smelly, filthy cages where they share space with feral animals. Many are sick or even rabid, and even if they aren’t they’re not going to be neighborly. And then there are the humans who will insist on injecting

the character with drugs or perhaps even neutering them. A shapeshifter’s regeneration may eventually reverse the procedure, but the humiliation could lead to frenzy.

Shelters are usually a last stop for animals that aren’t fit to be a pet, and even a shapeshifter trapped in animal form has to worry about the shelter putting him to sleep. The alternative, if the animal isn’t fit for a zoo, is to wind up in one of the camps. Being put to sleep would almost be a mercy in that case.