Ah, yes, that is where we differ. I have always liked the MC element especially when the person's personality, name, etc. are replaced by ones selected by their owner. I think 'Dawn's Tale' is a little different as it suggests that if you treat someone in a particular way over a period of time that they will change to fit in with that, I think her growing acceptance of her being constantly naked and people touching her genitalia is an example of that. In 'Paces' the woman who is enslaved by the mistress clearly has submissive tendencies and it is really just that her new owner brings them out of her in a formal way, she coaxes her to admit what she is clearly already feeling. I think these differ from enforced enslavement or as in my 'Encountering Change' in which the woman's mind is forcibly altered.

It would be interesting to read your approach, to see if her inability to communicate leads her to respond as a pet would. We often know what our cats and dogs want or are feeling by their body language or gestures even if we cannot 'speak' their language. I have a feeling that what the character understands as being 'normal' would change if she was constantly kept like a pet amongst pets, for example would she learn to stroke against her owner if she was hungry? Of course, bondage, punishment, deprivation, etc. might push her to behave in certain ways more quickly, though to some extent in 'Dawn's Tale' there is resistance but because she is in such a different context, her terms of reference have so shifted it is not a strong resistance. I, probably like many readers here, think back to the blue-skinned pet of Jabba the Hut in 'Return of the Jedi' (and briefly in 'The Phantom Menace') who is kiled off and Princess Leia is substituted in that role. Sexual congress between owner and pet would be impossible it appears, but the woman's role clearly has sexual overtones and she is clearly a collared pet.