That's already awkward. Has no one else pointed that out? She's not exactly hiding it when she asks it like that. Is it some kind of exotic pet? ...is owning it illegal? This girl doesn't look like a smuggler, though.

"So he's not a cat, but that's the thing he looks most like that you think we'd recognize." Okay, she can work with that at least. "And no, I haven't. This doesn't seem like a very safe place for an animal to suddenly appear."