"Insects!" She replies, incensed, "And what do you mean why are they called mice? That's... Things can be more than one thing! You're a person! And you're also a..."

She squints. Well, he was the same race that most of the people here were, tall and bipedal and with strangely patchy fur and... honestly, very strange, not that she was judging, of course. Strange was relative. Room for all in Society, right?

"...Ape? And I'm a person too! And a cat! How old are you?"