The last thing I remember was crossing the road with my dog, and then everything hurting. I guess I must have been hit by a car. I have been waiting for it to happen. No one ever listens to that light. They treat it more as a stop sign than anything else. So I always wear my bright yellow or green shirts when I am out walking but I guess this time was just my luck. I only hope that my golden doodle McCoy is ok. He is my world. I wake up every day with only him and me and that is all I need.

What is that loud beeping noise? It sounds like one of those machines in a hospital. I started to smell the room and it smelled so clean that I guess it could be a hospital that I was in. Do you think you can try to open your eyes, Eliza? I said to myself. Let's see if I can? I got my eyes to open and the colors in the room were off but I could still see. I looked around and I saw a bed beside me and there was McCoy. Sound asleep in bed? What was he doing in bed? He is a dog. He does not need one. I started to talk to him and said hello good boy. Little bear are you ok? I noticed that he was on an IV just like me, but I finally looked at my arms and I had fur! I had white fur! Ok, I do not have fur, I have skin that is white with brown almost red hair when I am in the sun. I do not have white fur! Ok, Ok Eliza think calmly and figure out what is going on. Ok ok, I have fur and paws. Let's find a mirror. Yes, that sounds like a great idea. I got out of bed and not forgetting my IV and found out I was a lot shorter than my 5 feet and 7 inches. I noticed when I got out of bed I had a tail. I became so happy I had a tail! I have been one of those people since I was a little girl that wished that I had a tail and I did not have any type of tail. I had a foxtail! I tried walking on two legs but it was hard so I ended up walking on all fours. I found a bathroom and got up on my back legs and looked at my face. I was a white arctic fox.

Ok, this is not normal. I have been told more than once in my life by family and friends that I am as sneaky and cunning as a fox, but to be one was a whole different story. I thought outside of the box a lot that was all. I knew what I could get away with and what I could not and I lived life on the edge that was it. Yea I might do not totally legal stuff in my life but it was not illegal also. Why make only a dollar on something when you can make 10 or 20?

I was out in what I guess is my room and walked up to McCoy's bed. I wonder if he is ok? He is only a little guy and I bet that car must have hurt him more than it has hurt me. I brought my IV near his bed and I climbed in it and circled myself around him. I made a noise like a fox or a dog like to tell him I was here. It just came out. I had this need to protect him and my brain said that he is mine to protect. He is pack and I needed to protect mine. I was not going to go against what came naturally to me, so I made it so that whoever walked into this room would only see me and not my little boy.

I was right about an hour later someone came in but what it was scared me and got me growling. Growling? Ok, this is new. I started to growl and bark at it and I was in a position that I saw dogs and foxes do when they are protecting themselves or others. I wanted to say that it was a zebra but this zebra had clothing on and it was walking on its back legs. It stopped walking in and started to speak. It said I am not here to hurt you. I only want to check your IVs. I understood what she said or I thought it was a she. The zebra sounded like a female, but I was not having it. I was not letting a talking striped horse come near me or my kit. The zebra I guess does not speak fox very well because she started to walk over to me and when she got near I did what I was warning her I would do and I bit down when she got close and grabbed my kit and ran under the bed with him. It only had one way to get to us and it was safer than on top. I heard the zebra say that we need a fox in here. One who can come in here fast. She does not understand our words but she might understand the yips and barks of another fox.

So here I am under the bed with my still asleep kit, and when did I start calling him kit? He is a full-grown dog. We take care of each other. It was in the fine print when I got him 2 years ago. O well maybe I will fall asleep and I will wake up in a normal hospital with me being human again. Right, when I was calm enough to think that I was safe enough to fall asleep I heard two voices outside my room's door. It was that zebra and another voice. They said something about not being able to sedate me because of stress and not attacking unless someone got close and they were scared of me hurting the fox kit if they did anything.

After I heard that I heard a male voice say I will get right on it. I then saw the door open and close and I started to growl. Through my growl, I knew I was saying stay away but I do not know how I was doing it. It just seemed right. I then saw this red fox go down and started to walk on all fours near me and stealthily. He was careful and I knew why. I bit that zebra and I will do it again too. He yipped and barked at me saying it is ok I will not hurt you. I only want to know why you bit that zebra. I said back she did not listen to me. I must protect my kit from things that I do not know. It was not safe and animals can not talk like she did. She talked like a human and not like an animal. The red fox said I do not know what a human is but mammals talk to each other if you are a fox or a zebra. He said that in English and I nodded my head but was still ready to bite him if he got closer to me. He said, ``Do you understand me? I barked yes but I can not seem to find the need to speak that way. It is easier to act on what comes first than what you are doing. He said that it is called instincts. Normally by age 2 or 3, a mammal will start to talk like and walk every other mammal. I then licked my kit's head and said I do not understand what is going on. I have these thoughts that I never had before and I am a fox. I was not a fox before. I was a different animal. He said yeah we know. We got into your phone and saw pictures of you and other people like you and your kit. We do not have mammals like that here. We have aps but they live in their own cities away from everyone.

I thought I could try to say ok in English to him but it still came out a bark. I only knew that I could trust this Fox so I made sure that McCoy was safe and walked out from under the bed. I got a good look at him and said my name is Eliza. He smiled and said my name is Nick Wilde.