Okay consider this. One day the cat distribution system leaves an injured feral cat in the yard outside the cottage and Ilya finds it and is like "We need to take her to the cat hospital I think a wolf attacked her" and so they go to Anya's vet and once the cat is all patched up Ilya asks what they should do now and Shane is on his phone like "While she was in surgery I bought a pet licence and I'm ordering a custom tag engraved with her name" and Ilya is like ???? Hello????
So Shane takes the cat home and Ilya is freaked out because Shane and the cat don't get along at ALL. He raises this concern and Shane is so confused like "Wait why do you think that?? we literally love each other???" And Ilya is like "But she doesn't cuddle you or get in your lap or hang out with you and sometimes she bites and claws you like a rabid beast????" And Shane is like "Well yeah she needs her space she's not a dog. Obviously."
Meanwhile Anya is doing that collie thing of slinking around on her belly following the cat everywhere wagging her tail frantically like Pls pls pls pls pls can we be friends :) pls :) until finally the cat gets tired of beating her up and a tense truce is established.
A few days later the gilded custom engraved pet tags show up and Ilya finds out Shane named the cat Lily. He stands there for a second looking at the name tag and thinking about Shane's menace-to-society asshole cat who plays rough and loves on Shane when no one is looking and yes, he does cry about it. Consider that.
