Starats are coming soon to a page near you!
The protagonists of my next book, Reborn, feature these artificially-created creatures. Designed to be a slave race to humanity, but are perhaps more intelligent than their masters realised.

Some gift art from  zyearthdefender
Originally posted at http://zyearth-defender.deviantart......arat-502405036

An origin of the starats will be told in my short story, Experiment Seventy, which is included in the upcoming Furry Future anthology from FurPlanet.