Oh yes, that is also technically true. However, it's my belief that those kinds of things stem from the fact that on the Neopets website, they are just that: pets; they pets with human owners (i.e. the users) in the actual Neopets canon, so they're kinda treated similarly to animals (albeit animals that can speak and such). But in a setting like this, where there are no such things as human owners, I tend to humanize them a bit more so that even the carnivorous pets tend not to eat others unless they've got more of an Evil alignment. xD