Your last paragraph sums it up quite nicely. These creatures are technically alien; they just resemble some of the four-legged critters we have on our world. Their languages, history, social structures and laws are all different than ours. There are some similarities. but their world is most certainly not a "carbon-copy" of our world with "people wearing animal costumes for no apparent reason" (such as what is prevalent in the majority of anthro work these days).
--JMH
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