It's just an ego thing. Dinosaurs used to rule the Earth, so the cat is making it clear that it is the new dominant species.
Tell us more of your FFII excursion. Inquiring minds, or lack thereof, want to know! Have you made it through Deist's Cave yet? Are you to the Mysidian Tower? Is Purple hair your thing?
Well, since you asked..... RANT MODE ACTIVATE!
So, I pretty much blazed through the game, got 100% on the bestiary and items, and called it a day. Part of me really wanted to get level 16 on the spells and weapons and have a maxed out party (which is something I like to do in Final Fantasy games so that I get the full experience), but the leveling process just got far, far too tedious.
For example, I was tracking the axe skill on Gus because all he ever did was melee with the same weapon type the entire game. He hit 11-33 and just stopped progressing, even through most of the endgame. I can't imagine how long it would have taken to max it out to 16 if it stopped moving at 11 against the toughest enemies the game had to offer. I'm sure there are tricks that people have developed to make it happen more quickly, but it just wasn't worth the effort to me.
I played the FF Origins version, and my guess is that some of the later versions of the game iron out some of the major annoyances (such as inventory limitations), so I might be willing to give one of those a shot in the future. Barring some flaws that can be expected from a company trying to reinvent the wheel after a previous success, it was decent for a late-80s RPG even if it offended my completionist sensibilities.
That being said, I've already started on FFIII for the PSP. I'm not digging the 3D interpretation of a 2D game, but the quality of life additions are a breath of fresh air.