Like I said, it still feels a little strange to me to fuck with a dog that doesn't have a human form, at least the dead have a human body. As much as you want to add shadow as a romantic option, it doesn't seem like WeirdWorld wants to add it. You know, there's a saying that the more you tell a person to do something, the less they want to do it.
Where I'm from there's a saying 'The more you reject, the more they'll ask' and that rings true here too.
But at any rate you're acting like the MC can't just change Shadow's shape to a more humanized one (which im fine with) so the whole no human form thing really falls flat when you have a shapeshifter like MC in the mix.