"Why is it called Big Cat?"
If they were going to give it a name like that, shouldn't they have called it Big Dog?
Hmm.
Li Yan frowned slightly.
Big Dog... did sound a little unpleasant.
The young man paused briefly.
Then he smiled knowingly.
He'd heard that question many times before.
So Li Yan's question didn't surprise him at all.
If anything, he was surprised that Li Yan had only just asked.
"It was the little girl who named him."
The young man answered directly.
Li Yan instinctively looked at the little girl.
She was playing with Big Dog, looking innocent and childlike.
So the child had come up with the name...
Li Yan's puzzlement over the strange name faded considerably.
"Big Cat wasn't originally called Big Cat," the young man explained.
Big Cat had joined the family a year before the little girl.
"He was called Big Gold."
"Mom gave him that name."
Big Gold?
Li Yan thought that, as expected, mother and daughter had a similar knack for choosing names.
"We called him Big Gold for several years."
But now that the young man said it, Big Gold somehow sounded strange to him.
"Two years ago, a cartoon came out that the little girl really liked."
"There was a very big cat in it."
"It was always by the main character's side."
"The little girl really liked that Big Cat."
"She insisted on changing Big Gold's name to Big Cat."
"At first, we all thought it was strange to call a perfectly good dog Big Cat."
"But she was so determined that we let her have her way."
"Eventually, we got used to calling him that."
"Oh."
Li Yan understood.
So that was it.
"Big Cat is a pretty good name," Li Yan praised.