 Why shouldn't Anne feed the neutroids?
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. 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. 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. 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. And there were only eleven empty neutroid cages in his kennel. He wadded the memo in his pocket, then nosed the truck onto the highway and headed toward Wylo City and the district wholesale offices of Anthropos, Inc. A week's deadline for finding and testing forty neutroids would put him in a tight squeeze.
 Neutroids can only form attachments with a limited number of people. The neutroids at the kennel belong to other people.
 Neutroids can only form attachments with a limited number of people. The neutroids at the kennel belong to other people.  Neutroids are supposed to eat a nutritional paste from a mechanical feeder.  Neutroids have a special diet to limit their physical and mental development.  Neutroids could become excitable and bite someone who is not their owner.