 The barn and kennels are allusions to:
They were such cute synthetic creatures, it was impossible not to love them. But think—we get this house rent-free; I've got my own district with no bosses around; I make my own hours; you'll meet lots of people that stop in at the pound. 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. The suburban street wound among the pastel plasticoid cottages that were set approximately two to an acre on the lightly wooded land. 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. As he approached an intersection, he saw a small animal sitting on the curb, wrapped in its own bushy tail. 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. He found himself in Sherman III Community Center—eight blocks of commercial buildings, serving the surrounding suburbs. 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. 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.
 Concentration camps
 Ethnic experimentation labs  Torture chambers  Unethical animal testing facilities  Concentration camps