 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. 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. 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. A week's deadline for finding and testing forty neutroids would put him in a tight squeeze. Of course, no hospital would play along with her fantasy and take a neutroid, especially since she couldn't pay for its treatment." You're welcome to it, Doctor, but you can't fake a serial number. Only thirty-five of July's Bermuda-K-99s had entered his territory, and they were about equally divided among five pet shops, three of which were in Wylo City.
 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.