Maybe he has a serious image of himself, he did lie about Punchans name being “Konosuke”, though while older men do have cats I imagine they don’t publicly fawn the same way we see him do in his house , even tho he posts insta pics
Be nice if the anime went as far as this though each ep is only like a minute , but I imagine it’ll still take a while to get to Tepu being befriended let alone Miipon