>>51511130And there's nothing unusual about that. Pokémon aren't real pets, they're fictional magical critters. Verily so if you look at children's media there's other fictional pets that do those things as well. Does Courage stop being Eustace and Muriel pet dog? Does Courage stop being a fictional critter because of his actions? No, because the series constructs Courage to be a dog and a pet even if he's smarter than his owners and can outsmart super geniuses and supernatural entities.
Pokemon as pets has not died off at all. I showed how in camp Pokemon emulate the behavior of real dogs, how you play real pet games with them and interact with them using real pet toys. Look at how Pokémon act outside of their pokeball in Legends of Arceus. They behave like cute little animals and it's intentional from the developers. New Pokémon Snap builds up the concept of Pokémon as natural magical creatures. If anything they doubled down on this view as the technology avaliable allowed them to do certain things. What did following Pokémon do in HGSS and BDSP? They barked and chewed on things like real pets. This is all intentional and coded in the DNA of the franchise.
