Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
In the future, low end jobs have been replaced with either robots, or androids where a more 'personable' interaction is needed. All are mass-produced to ensure no citizen is denied their service. At a 99% success rate, the largest producer of these wonders - Andromorph, LTD - was seated to be the world leader in anthropomorphic androids, with the 1% being swiftly, and some might say brutally, dealt with. But when one of their 'customer service' models - Unit RAE4423 - breaks out of his programming, he is hunted, framed and vilified. It is only when a group of android-rights furs contacts the unit to help them bring the message of equal rights for all humanoids, that he takes the fight to his creators - where the TRUE designs are revealed. Can 'Ray' overcome these odds and give freedom to his fellow androids, or is he doomed to be reprogrammed into a lifetime of servitude again?
RAE4423 (The bio-furs just call him 'Ray') was purchased by the 'Body Boutique' (An implant store for wealthy furs to get communication or other cybernetic enhancements installed) to be the raccoon-face of customer service. When a particularly abusive customer goes too far, Ray's standard programming crashes, only to be replaced with baser instincts of fight and flight.
The dams may have given the city its water supply, but it also flooded the farms, turning good fields into worthless swamp. Of course, the city hoofers never did care much for the country, leaving the now out-of-work horses, donkeys and cattle to fend for themselves. While most just made the best of it, one donkey's ambition led him to stealing goods from the city, a major crime that made him a lot of enemies. But also the loyalty of Colette, his mare girlfriend, who hid him in the swamp after his bold escape from jail. Now with the swamp sheriff smelling an opportunity at some fat reward money, it's a fight to hide the longear as long as she can.
Runson did what Colette asked and poisoned the coffee he pours for the sheriff every morning. But when morning rises, the honest mule has a change of heart. But before he can warn the stubborn old bull, he learns that the sheriff has his own problems with the unlucky longear.