Herdier might look like a cartoon dog, but at least it's drawn with cartoony proportions, and no real life dog has fur shaped like Herdier's. But Persian is literally a cat, and it's not even cartoony. It's just a drawing of a cat with anime eyes. A mountain lion looks exactly like Persian. If you glue a jewel on a mountain lion's forehead, it WILL become Persian. How did they get away with this? And don't even say Pidgey because there's no real bird that looks exactly like it, with the same colors and proportions.