[[WMG:"Sock" is [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Tigger]]'s cousin.]]
They're both orange with black stripes and have a SpeechImpediment. They're also crazy, personality-wise. The only difference between them is that Sock is a real animal, and Tigger is stuffed.
* Alternatively, Sock is related to Hobbes (from Calvin and Hobbes)
* Not likely, since he's a bobcat and they're both tigers.

[[WMG: Plato's Peak itself is the source of the animals' sapience.]]
Plato, Soc, Ari, and Aurora are the only talking animals in the show, and whenever we see animals anywhere other than Plato's Peak, they're inevitably shown to be non-anthropomorphic. Perhaps Plato's Peak itself has some kind of magical power that can [[UpliftedAnimal make the animals living there more intelligent]], which is why they seem to be the only ones of their kind that we see.
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