Pet Law

Pet ownership is regulated in its entirety according to Pet Law. This law applied to the Tanagura elites as well as their pets. According to it, pets were, from beginning to end, the property of the elite and Tanagura did not recognize their human rights.

## Eos Pet Code

The Eos Pet Code consisted of nine articles.

Article Nine:

1. I. Qualifications
2. II. Registration procedures
3. III. Pet husbandry
4. IV. Disease prevention
5. V. Breeding requirements
6. VI. Quality assurance
7. VII. Prohibitions
8. VIIl. Disciplinary boundaries
9. IX. Disposal procedures

Pets who were brought to Eos would normally be registered and made official within two weeks of their arrival. At that point they would debut and would be presented with their pet ring which served as their ID. It is only then that they are officially considered pets and their registration data would attest to this.

Pet Registration Data included pets’ registration number, code name, sex, birth place and hair and eye colour. Their retinas were scanned too. This data was also available to the Midas Division of Public Safety, unless the access was restricted, which was the case with some pets.

S-class code denotes that the pet belongs to a Blondy.

A pet license was issued to the owners who carried it with them as confirmation of their ownership. The license would bear the holy seal of Tanagura as mark of authenticity.

Pet areas were also guided by laws, an example is Pet Salon Code, Article 17, Section 5. Article 17 governs off-limit areas and Section 5 governs property damage. If pets were to break any of these laws, they would be warned or penalised.

Once the pet is no longer wanted by its owner, the pet ring is removed and all of its records are expunged. It is then disposed of and sold in Midas.

## **Loopholes, Taboos and Scandals**

    With the class system and its expectations evident to all citizens of Tanagura, even the most powerful of the Elites are expected to honor the expectations placed on them. These social expectations were as clear as the legal expectations outlined in the Pet Law. Such was the rigidity of the Metallic City. Anything that goes against this social contract will cause immediate ripples in the still waters of the status quo.

### Introducing a Mongrel into Eos

Even before Iason Mink’s major faux pas, his frequent change of pets was registered by those around him. He would procure top quality pets, only to get rid of them without even breeding them once, for no discernable reason. This was seen as flouting of his Elite duties but nothing more.

However when he showed up with a mongrel from Ceres as his pet, everyone was stunned, owner and pet alike. An act like this was unheard of and was seen as the slap in the face to the order and traditions they abided by since the creation of Eos.

### Sexual Encounters Between Master and Pet

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Not satisfied with turning Tanagura on its head, Iason took things one step (or several steps) further. After Riki’s debut as an Eos Pet, he was never sent to the Soirees, never mated, never bred. But the clear marks of lovemaking on his body gave rise to the rumors that Iason himself was sleeping with him. Not only were physical relations between a pet and its owner seen as absurd and perverse, the mere idea that someone of Iason Mink’s status would degrade himself to a degree where he would lay with a slum mongrel was outright revolting. It caused no small amount of jealousy and scorn among the pets whose view of their own self-worth had been changed forever. However due to Iason’s status no one really dared do or say anything overtly.

### Mongrel and an Academy-bred Pet

   Another set of rumors surrounding Riki eventually emerged and that is that he was secretly sleeping with Raoul’s Academy-bred pet, Mimea. These rumors were proven true through Mimea’s own admission and another wave of revulsion gripped Eos. Yet again, no one could understand why an Academy pet would sink this low, but even worse, that Riki would dare offer such a slap on the face to Iason. It was a direct challenge to his pride.

Nevertheless, the onlookers seemed eager to see the fallout between two top Blondies over their pets, as it was thought that through copulating with a mongrel, the value of Raoul’s pet drastically dropped, which in turn was seen as Iason’s fault. But for all intents and purposes the matter was settled privately and without visible animosity.

### The Daryl Incident

Not to be thought of as complacent, Riki’s string of disobediences continued when he somehow managed to escape Eos and expose a security breach in Tanagura’s very center. The scandal was further amplified by the revelation that it was Iason’s furniture, Daryl, who hacked the system and released Riki. The problems Riki and Iason were getting into were now crossing the boundaries of simply being in bad taste and a challenge to lifelong Eos traditions, but were challenging the laws and regulations, and thus Jupiter itself.

### The Pet Law Loopholes

Eventually Iason released Riki back into the slums, but even this was done in an irregular manner. Namely, all pets who leave Eos are to have their records purged and no longer be considered pets. As such, they must be disposed of and sold in Midas. Iason bypassed all of this by pointing out pet laws only apply to Midas-bred pets, which Riki was not, and that specialised breeds, such as mongrels, are exempt. Iason twisted the Pet Law to find any loophole he could which enabled him to get away with his actions. In the same manner, he used these loopholes to return Riki to Eos again, making him the only pet in history to come back after leaving Eos once.

However, as Iason wove his logic through every loophole in the fabric of Pet Law and twisted the truth to suit his purposes, nobody stopped him, even though they raised many objections and eyebrows. But Jupiter itself clearly stated that, technically, no law had been violated.