Such specimens are caught (trapped, netted, hooded) with no more thought than the snaring of any other sort of animal, for which there is a price. The alien hunters, or human hunters, hired by aliens, are organized and efficient. Earth, a backward nation, lies much at the mercy of these depredations. The females are treated with the same efficiency and care as any other form of desired commercial animal. They are caught, rounded up, herded, stripped, kept in holding areas, fed and watered, examined as to condition and health, graded and sorted, etc. If found acceptable for return to the alien’s planet, they might be branded on the ass with the company’s mark; each is doubtless provided with a locked collar, perhaps with ring for leash attachment, coded to inform purchasers of her approximate age, place and time of capture, grade, health data, diet, etc. The age is estimated primarily by size, development of female contours, general appearance, dryness of hair and condition of teeth. In examining the teeth, the head is forced back and the mouth opened rudely with two hands, holding the jaws apart. This serves to open the mouth widely and, as a precautionary measure, prevents biting. Captured Earth females, on the other hand, to the interest of the hunters, almost never bite. Only one in ten thousand attempts to bite. She, of course, is promptly punished, usually by a severe whipping. She will not attempt to bite again. She has learned obedience under the lash, and well. She will now be even more eager to please than the others. The rest are too terrified. They wish only to obey and be pleasing. Earth females are prize slave stock, highly valued in the galaxy. A touch of the whip turns any one of them into a superb slave. If the female is too young or does not meet certain specifications, she is released. Only choice specimens are accepted. The company is competitive, and it is determined to maintain its reputation.

On the alien planet, and where the company maintains its outlets, the girls may be purchased, by various forms of rational life, including Earthlings. For example, one beauty might find herself purchased by a large, sluglike creature, who keeps her in his globe, as an olfactory ornament, pleased by her smells; another might be kept as a portion of a collection of interesting fauna, one among diverse specimens, used primarily as conversation pieces; another might find herself introduced into a house as a lovely pet, perhaps desired by two childless stalklike aliens; the bottoms of the doors are twenty feet high; she is taken outdoors only on a leash; perhaps others are purchased, in large groups, for scientific experiments, which the aliens would regard as immoral to inflict on individuals of their own type; such specimens are kept in heavy wired cages, with metal plates.