Roiyaru - Dog Cages  (Parked in the kennels, until, or if there is interest in a second male dog)<br/><br/>"Bartomeu", I kept saying it over and over again to myself.  I didn't want to forget, to lose the last bit of humanity that I could call my own.  My human name, my connection with a world that I would never again be part of.  As long as I had my mind though, there was hope, right?  That's what I clung to, a threadbare shred of hope, that last thing about me that made me a man, a human.  Having lost so much, it made my mind that much more precious.  I wasn't a dog in the normal sense.  I never would be, as long as I played my part convincingly to my human masters and mistresses, did as they commanded me, and suffered the many humiliations, and tortures they so enjoyed inflicting on me.<br/><br/>I was laying on my bedding, a thick and soft pad at the back of my cage, trying hard not to think about how badly I needed to pee, and how much it disgusted, and shamed me when I was forced to relieve myself in my own cage.  Knowing that the other 'special' dogs would all turn away from me, knowing that they too would be forced to bear the blushing shame of having to do so themselves.<br/><br/>There was a new special dog, a bitch, I could hear her somewhere down the line of neat stainless steel cages, desperately claiming her humanity that she'd already been stripped of.  I tried to find something inside me, compassion, even pity.  Nothing.  She was now just like me.<br/><br/><em>"Hey, I'm not an animal, one of your squads picked me up by accident!" </em><br/><br/>I rolled over on my 'bed', and tried to ignore her, hoping someone would come soon, and take me from my cage, and let me relieve myself.