Well, you have a interesting story build with some potential. A beginning is an important thing as it addresses the audiences attentions and drags them into the works rhetoric. For narrative purposes introducing with a character in first person is acceptable, however, separation and transition of narrative shifts needs to be apparent.
First person has a catch-22 with lose of character traits, however, I was surprised that you actually built these up later which a great deal of first person writers lack at. Kite's narration though is questionable in the show not tell fallacy. That depends on your rhetorical purpose in writing the work. Showing the audience allows for their exploration of the work's world you are trying to convey. While Kite's narration does imply his thoughts and allow for depth of time, a sense of present is lost with a feel of scenic traits. Thus the question is a narrative element for the sake of the story vs. present flow for the audience's own depth. You closed your chapter off well though.
I enjoyed the bipedal look as it is something many over look or forget in anthropomorphic works. Bipedalism is an important part in anatomy. A lot of anthropomorphism biedalism is characterized by a quadruped foot instead of a flat diverged grasping. This is what I mean by double bent. I apologize for the tangent in this but as an excit8ing concept as an anthropologist. A quadruped foot like that would excel in orthogenesis where a flat diverged grasping foot like ourselves. However, the meniscus (the disc that allows your to rotate your foot) of the ankle would be lost. Shock and speed with less dependence on energy would be crucial. Yet, this still would all depend on curvature of the spine and forum magnum of the skull. By enculturation or instinct bipedlism would differ from a roll by sway of the pelvis on of the ball of the foot to a roll on the forward toes or paw. In theory a transformed human would have trouble walking at first, but would be the equivalent of walking on ones tip toes.
To that degree as you build your rhetoric, best to define your own definements for the work. "Anthro," is a slang term defined by the fandom itself. A development of your own word might perhaps build your rhetoric as better.
Over all you have touched some surprising ideas and strengths where others lacks. The more detail and description the more a story comes to life, take some time giving more exploration of character to your audience, and good luck with the rest.

thank you for the insight, very detailed. I had made sure to add the concept of the leg as i knew the story would be lacking a bit, at least in my mind.

Hmm...after reading a few parts over again...particularly the beginning...it seems you have foreshadowed the doom of Kate and Tory, which should be obvious lol...as I said while I was revising this somewhat, this seems not only to be a scif-fi story from what you told me, but it is also a suspense story...I am curious now as to how this will turn out lol. Especially as to what happens to Kate and Tory.