Is it? What are they supposed to look like where you're from?

[Maybe this is another Pokémon with a direct animal counterpart? He swears he's heard the name baku before, he just can't remember where.....]

People have actually been having a lot of nightmares over the past few months, so I think there should be plenty to spare, even if people want to keep their good dreams. But I took her off the hands of another trainer who didn't understand how to take care of her right--he thought she only needed normal food. We've been together ever since!

[A very diplomatic way of putting the circumstances, but not a lie. Nobody wants to hear about a jerk mistreating their Pokémon, right?]