[She's a little sidetracked by the Audino and the device you released it from, you understand. She's also grinning like a fool.]

That's incredible-- it the ball some kind of storage device? You must be able to carry quite a few of your animals with you! Is it comfortable in there? [She laughs.] It must be, "Audino" looks to be very happy.

Ah, yes. Well, my Cait is a little different that the cats we have here, he's bipedal, and he's fully artificially intelligent, so talking to him much is like talking to any other reasonably intelligent human. He's a good friend, too. [She misses Cait, and it probably shows.]
You say "partners", what is it you do together?