Gord Sellar Analog 2016 Novelette Near-Future SF 9,628 words details

Benji was an ordinary terrier until his master decided to have him sentientized.

Gord Sellar Asimov's 2019 Novella SF Epic 24,559 words details

Over eleven years, a farm boy grows to a man on the Canadian prairie while new technology utterly changes the world he lives in.