Wanting to keep going with the weirdness rather than make it more normal, you went through the list until you found 'Hands' and 'Feet' on yours and 'Paws' on the dog's, and then you swapped your hands with it's paws, creating a slightly surreal image. The dog now had four hands on all of it's legs, while your image now had two paws on it's arms and skill kept your feet. Interestingly, the dog's hands now seemed to have fur on the back, while your new paws only had the teenaged beginnings of arm hair but were mostly hairless. Still, though, you wanted to see if you could swap something that would ensure the dog could go to the bathroom, and scrolled through the list. A number of the options were for possessions, which had a small bit of text above them saying 'This will be swapped manually due to change in:Belongings. Swap manually then swap back to prevent this.' You shrugged and kept looking. It took a little while, but eventually you ran into a number of skills, one of which was the slightly unusually-worded 'Excretion Skills', to which you obviously had full knowledge of how to use a toilet while the dog knew to go outside. "Perfect," you said as you swapped it over, then noticed 'Excretion Location' underneath, but while you had 'Toilets' and the dog had 'Outside', there was a small bit of text above them similar to what was above your possessions, only it specified the above option. Right before you said "Confirm", you noticed another option called 'Game Skills'. For you it listed various video games but with a drop-down for more, while the dog just had things like "Fetch" and "Frisbee". You figured the dog was the one with the games and the hands to play them, so you decided to swap those over too.
"Confirm."
You were immediately caught by a couple of sensations. First... your clothes were gone. Second, there was the sound of a Smash Bros. game in your ears, followed by a dog panting. Third, you no longer had hands, but paws, and your position automatically shifted so you were holding it with both of them as you lacked the hands to do it properly. Looking next to you was the even stranger sight of the neighbors' dog in your clothes with human hands playing Smash. You stepped over to see how it was doing, and... Well, you were having trouble telling, as you no longer knew how Smash worked, but the dog seemed to be having fun... then started to note some things odd about your room. Your bed was a bit smaller, and a lot shorter. It was a bit messier, with a few toys from when you were a kid and other items strewn about the floor. The TV and consoles were on the floor. Looking in your closet to find all 'your' clothes were now dog-sized was the least strange part. You went to look on the outside of your bedroom door, and in place of 'Michael' was the name 'Princess'. "Interesting," you mused.
"Hey, Michael," Hannah greeted from the hall, unbothered by your nudity. "Is Carol's dog winning?" You didn't think anyone in your family really knew this neighbor before now, let alone her name, but given that, somehow, this dog that your family did not own had it's own room in your house with all these things in it's possession, that probably required some more familiarity. This also meant that switching back would likely be easier.
"Uh..." You looked at the screen again. You still couldn't make out much beyond the appropriate fact Princess Peach was fighting the Duck Hunt dog. "I don't know."
"Okay, then," Hannah replied as she continued with whatever she was doing. Curiously, you looked out the window again. The doghouse outside of the neighbor you now knew was named Carol's house seemed bigger, but some of the dog toys strewn about the yard seemed to disappear. Wanting to look into this, you made your way downstairs, and on your way back out of the front door you found a large dog bed in the living room. Considering your family, again, had no pets and Princess now had your bed, the conclusion to why that was there and was so big seemed obvious, but you continued on your way outside, where you had a little trouble with the front door with your new paws holding the remote, so you had to put it down to use them to open the door then pick it back up and step outside, where the sight of a nude teenage boy with paws for hands holding a strange remote turned zero heads as you walked to see the doghouse, the name 'Michael' right above it. You crouched down and on the inside, you found various dog toys neatly placed on a presumably new shelf inside of it.
"Hi, Michael, how was school?" You were a little surprised to hear a stranger's voice ask this, but looking outside you saw a woman presumably leaving the house that you seemed to now live outside.
"Carol? Is that you?" you asked.
"Who else?" she replied. "I'm just going to see Princess."
"Um, okay, then," you replied before she walked into your house, seemingly satisfied with that bit of small talk. Reflecting on the insanity you'd just made reality into, you wondered if you could take this further, possibly even becoming Carol's pet as Princess took the role of a human despite mostly acting like your respective species, far wilder than a simple life or body swap. You were already now a human teenage boy who lived in a doghouse outside of your neighbors' house, didn't wear clothes, went to the bathroom outside (though you'd yet to do that), and had paws for hands, while Princess was now a dog that had her own room in the house of a family that didn't own her, wore clothes, used toilets like a human (though you'd yet to see that), and had hands for paws. And to think - this was all because you were a little scared of a dog wearing pants.
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