[She's never heard of that mix even back home or here in Avalon even if some animals here remind her of how her home world combines animals...]

Yeah, our home world is full of animals, who are a combo of two and something as simple as just 'bear' or something is really not so common there. We have fauna with names like turtle ducks, otter penguins, tiger seals, badgermoles, koalaotters, platypus bear, saber-tooth moose lion and so on, though we have bears, dogs, and others like that too.

But I've never heard of that combo! Can I see your familiar?