Pet - a short story

Here is yet another science fiction short story:
http://miriam-english.org/stories/pet.html

This one's about 6 pages long and feels like some of the old science fiction stories I used to love as a kid.

Let me know what you think.

(Crossposted from http://miriam-e.dreamwidth.org/323734.html at my Dreamwidth account. Number of comments there so far: )