“Sold!”

Cried the auctioneer, then a large painting was carried off the stage. You, a healer specializing in hybrid care, visits the auction house quite often. You would spend all your saving to buy hybrid animals, nurse them back to health, then send them off to live their lives.

This time, it was very different. Recently, the rates of things like declawing and defanging had increased in your country. The auctioneer came back on stage, a cage with a hybrid dragged on behind him.

“This one’s been declawed and defanged! How about we start with…five thousand?”