Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel our family members and our laborers our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them admire them and abuse them. And of course we cook and eat them.
People are taken aback by a confident pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.