TY - BOOK AU - Alonso,Kassten TI - The Pet Thief SN - 9781573668392 AV - PS3601 .P488 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Normal PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - Fiction KW - Electronic Books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 2; The Pet Thief; Tsokka tsokka tsokka; A Bibliography; In Gratitude; 2; b N2 - The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind's inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world. When scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animals-cats, specifically-for organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective.Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, "cat people," who UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=585095&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -