 Why does Mrs. Glubbes shoot the doctor?
Conditionally Human By WALTER M. MILLER, JR. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] They were such cute synthetic creatures, it was impossible not to love them. If I don't want to follow my aptitudes, the only choice is common labor. "They assigned me to it because I liked babies. And because I have a B.S. in biology and an aptitude for dealing with people. Destroying unclaimed units is the smallest part of it. Honey, before the evolvotron, before Anthropos went into the mutant-animal business, people used to elect dogcatchers. He ripped the splinter loose when it became obvious that she didn't want to be kissed. With its population legally fixed at three hundred million, most of the country had become one big suburb, dotted with community centers and lined with narrow belts of industrial development. It was a cat-Q-5. The cat-Q-5 stared at him impassively for a moment, let out a stuttering high-pitched wail, then: "Kiyi Rorry." The cat-Q-5 took its time about answering. "That's right, Mama's kitty. He followed it in the truck until it darted onto a porch and began wailing through the screen, "Mama no run ray! A class-C couple, allowed no children of their own, could get quite attached to a cat-Q-5. The felines were emotionally safer than the quasi-human chimp-K series called "neutroids." When a pet neutroid died, a family was broken with grief; but most couples could endure the death of a cat-Q or a dog-F. Class-C couples were allowed two lesser units or one neutroid. Attention All District Inspectors: Subject: Deviant Neutroid. You will immediately begin a systematic and thorough survey of all animals whose serial numbers fall in the Bermuda-K-99 series for birth dates during July 2234. Seize all animals in this category, impound, and run proper sections of normalcy tests. Delmont has confessed to passing only one non-standard unit, but there may be others. He disclaims memory of deviant's serial number. This could be a ruse to bring a stop to investigations when one animal is found. If allowed to reach age-set or adulthood, such a deviant could be dangerous to its owner or to others. Its replacement-quota of new neutroids was around three hundred animals a month. He tried to estimate how many of July's influx had been K-99s from Bermuda Factory.
 He substituted her nuetroid for an identical model.
 He substituted her nuetroid for an identical model.  She thinks he let her baby die.  The doctor will not take her baby to the hospital.  Mrs. Glubbes is mentally ill.