Not saying Buzz doesn’t deserve it, but he lives a better life than I.

Just in case people do take this seriously, birds are important. If you want to take your cats out, supervise them or put them on a leash. The environment and your cats ARE better off not mangling with each other.

I think the idea is that the majority of the consumers and viewers of anime and manga are teenagers. To pull in that audience, the characters would have to be relatively the same age for the audience to relate to those characters.