"It must be like puppy Christmas," said Alex, looking over all the packages.
"Bark!" Bubbles agreed.
"Let's see what we've got," said Alex.
First he opened the large box, which contained all the new puppysuits. This was good; Bubbles' current one was starting to get damaged from the constant wear. Alex figured they would just throw it out now that they had new ones to cycle through.
Alex exhaled hard. He knew Bubbles would make getting her into the new suit a whole thing. She still put up a fight every time he bathed her. Putting up a fight when he tried to do necessary things was her favorite game.
The rest of the packages contained the other odds and ends: two rubber bone chew toys, one blue and one red, a stuffed monkey doll, and some dog treats.
Alex handed Bubbles the stuffed monkey as soon as he unwrapped it and she held it in her mouth while she watched him open the rest.
"And there are the dog treats," said Alex, removing several packages of snausages. "So you really going to eat these or did I just waste my money?"
"Murf!" said Bubbles, barking around her toy.
He opened the package. The smell was strong and way worse than the dog food. Alex took out one of the little tubes.
Bubbles sat down and dropped her monkey, looking up at him expectantly.
"I'm calling your bluff," said Alex.
He tossed the treat to Bubbles.
Bubbles jumped, trying to catch it in her mouth. She succeeded only it getting hit in the head with it.
Alex laughed.
Bubbles grabbed the fallen snausage in her mouth and ate it in two bites.
"Yuck," said Alex.
"Bark bark," Bubbles disagreed.
Bubbles went over to the pile of new gear and grabbed the leash in her mouth. She brought it over to Alex, sat down like a dog, and gave him the puppy dog eyes.
"You want to go for a walk?"
"Bark!"
"Outside?"
"Bark!"
"I don't know about that," said Alex. "That might be illegal."
"Bark bark!"
Alex tried to think of what specific law they would be breaking if they went out for a walk. Bubbles was technically clothed, such as it was. It really wasn't hurting anyone.
Then he looked at her damaged dog suit. That was just from walking around his heavily carpeted house. Pavement would tear it to shreds.
"Well I don't think your suit would survive, do you?"
Bubbles turned her head to the side. Apparently she hadn't thought of that.
"Tell you what," said Alex, "why don't we order a new heavy-duty puppysuit for outside? One durable enough for walkies."
"Bark!" said Bubbles, excited. She jumped up at Alex until she succeeded in knocking him down onto the couch. Then she licked his face.
"Okay," said Alex, laughing and pushing her away, "let's go do that."
Alex ordered the new suit, the same color as all the others, and he and Bubbles got back to her training.
Alex and Bubbles got into a pattern over the next few days where Bubbles would get her lunch one tiny piece at a time as a reward for performing tricks. This would inevitably lead to practicing the more sexual commands. Bubbles was getting a lot of practice for both "suck" and "present".
Bubbles now used the "present" position to signal that she wanted sex. She wanted it a lot; she really was in a constant state of arousal.
Alex started to incorporate staying still in the bath into their training, and eventually Bubbles started to behave during the activity. Alex was finally able to wash her and change dog suits once a day.
He found himself more and more able to think of Bubbles like a dog, although their constant sex acts would always inevitably break that particular spell.
Alex was really starting to feel like he had control of his life again for the first time in forever.
Four days into his vacation the doorbell rang and Bubbles, as she always did, charged the door to bark at it. Alex assumed it must be the new outside suit. He was very both anxious and excited to try that thing out.
It was clear by now that Bubbles was going to be a part of his life long-term. He couldn't reasonably hope to hide it forever. He might as well just go all in.
Alex opened the door and was surprised to find that Sarah that courier was nowhere to be found. Instead a single giant package was waiting for him.
It was too large, too completely enormous, to contain the suit he ordered.
"This can't possibly be what it obviously is," said Alex.
The four sides of the package fell to the ground, as though whatever was holding it together simply let go. It revealed another dog crate containing, impossibly and inevitably, another puppygirl in a suit identical to Bubbles'. The exception being this one was colored a pale pastel purple. She barked and wiggled her butt to wag her tail.
Alex panicked. He had really been hoping he could avoid his neighbors coming to the conclusion that he was some kind of human trafficker and this wasn't going to help that impression at all. As quickly as he could, which wasn't very quickly at all, Alex dragged the cage girl-and-all into his house.
Finally he hauled it over the threshold and then closed the door behind him. He looked out the window; it didn't look like anyone saw.
Bubbles started pawing at the crate. The girl inside barked. Bubbles barked back.
Alex narrowed his eyes. The puppygirl looked familiar...
SARAH! The courier! She was always so interested in Bubbles... holy crap and she asked him point blank if he just let people show up at his house and live as dogs.
He probably shouldn't have answered "yes" to that.
Was this a thing? Had he just lived his whole life with this being a thing people did and he just didn't realize it?
Alex opened the door to the cage; it wasn't locked like Bubbles', just latched. Sarah bounded out and ran over to Bubbles on all fours. She wasn't nearly as good at it as Bubbles but she was better than Alex thought he would be.
"You can't stay you know," said Alex. "I have all the pets I can handle."
Bubbles immediately started sniffing at Sarah's butt, because of course she did. Sarah didn't appear to mind; quite the opposite she quickly started sniffing Bubbles as well.
Alex was well past being mad at himself for being aroused by this.
