@ Hanzo Well in that one scene where it's walking along and you see it's back end with the tail up... it's arse looks like a cat's. The way it sits on that column with the arch of it's back and the form of the back legs...cat. The way it's back legs look when it the boy is hanging off it's tail and it is trying to climb back to safety...cat. It's general gait when walking...cat.
And some breeds of cat are very friendly and playful, even playing fetch, so having a frindly and affectionate giant cat-bird is not especially odd cf a giant dog-bird.
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