Coeurls are cats ; ;

[Souljacker]

What reason in the lore is there for having coeurl "pups"? Coeurl are large cat class predator monsters and should be cubs.

Is there something in the storyline I may have missed that explains this?

[Amnesia]

Different animals have different names for their young. Baby anteaters, bats, hamsters and coeurls are all pups.

[Bombast]

Pup can apply to quite a few mammal creatures. And since the coeurl isn't really a cat, there doesn't seem to be a lore problem.

[Velox]

Yes, there's a difference between being "cat-like" and physically being a cat. Coeurls are the former.

[Proto-ManX5]

There are coeurl pups and kittens...

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/671341068f4/

[Anonymoose]

I thought this same exact thing, but even after going through the entire Wikipedia chart and seeing that pup is primarily for canids and rodents and has no presence in felidae, people still seem keen to defend it. I think they should keep the minion as kitten, but change the pups to cubs, which appear in both canidae and fenidae. But, even then, we still have Kyan's fight to fight - why does the pup have whiskers and no spots (implying that spots come later in development) if the kitten has spots and no whiskers? Does it temporarily lose its spots when it grows whiskers? What is this!?

[Kyan]

I thought this same exact thing, but even after going through the entire Wikipedia chart and seeing that pup is primarily for canids and rodents and has no presence in felidae, people still seem keen to defend it. I think they should keep the minion as kitten, but change the pups to cubs, which appear in both canidae and fenidae. But, even then, we still have Kyan's fight to fight - why does the pup have whiskers and no spots (implying that spots come later in development) if the kitten has spots and no whiskers? Does it temporarily lose its spots when it grows whiskers? What is this!?

I call a boycott on summoning the coeurl kitten minion! /protest

[finiteHP]

Maybe the Coeurl kitten isn't really a coeurl. Someone's house cat got adopted by the mother Coeurl (the cat went along with it because, hey free food). This would explain why it warms to you so fast. It's used to people. But a cat found with a Coeurl must really be a Coeurl, duh!, so therefore Coeurl kitten! Won't we be surprised when it stops growing at house cat size and just has cat whiskers. Adventurers aren't the brightest bulbs. After all how else do you explain us thinking that a purple pig is a baby behemoth even though they look completely different. How the heck does that cute piggy snout and trotters become the bestial muzzle and paws of the adult?

[CodeCass]

Maybe the Coeurl kitten isn't really a coeurl. Someone's house cat got adopted by the mother Coeurl (the cat went along with it because, hey free food). This would explain why it warms to you so fast. It's used to people. But a cat found with a Coeurl must really be a Coeurl, duh!, so therefore Coeurl kitten! Won't we be surprised when it stops growing at house cat size and just has cat whiskers. Adventurers aren't the brightest bulbs. After all how else do you explain us thinking that a purple pig is a baby behemoth even though they look completely different. How the heck does that cute piggy snout and trotters become the bestial muzzle and paws of the adult?

ALL THE LOGIC!!!!!

[Souljacker]

Well remember we also have coeurl mounts that have been trained as kittens to see us as friend and not food. Coeurl kitten can lead into lore of coeurl mount without it being a random kitten that latched to an adult coeurl as mom.