Lovely world that can be seen in here, the world details help it and your point. I do have one important writing criticism if you want it.

sure. What d'ya got?

You write in the wrong tense for the work. Present tense requires something called framing to work well. Your work does not have it. Else wise it becomes a bad form of telling leading to a lot of goofey sentence things really jarring the work. Past tense creates an illusion of happening for a reader and for most stories the best tense to use due to that reason.

Verbs in past tense mainly end in ed, was instead of is, and some other choices.
EX: Past tense

"Are you really trying to say you're an engineer?" the tiger said, obviously trying to play up the whole built like a tank stereotype of the species.

Terrence watched the tiger continue to stare at him with disapproval, but it's not like it's something Terrence has ever let bother him, he's was used to everyone treating him like that because he had no thumbs he could be nothing more than an invalid.

It makes a big difference for audience readership and flow.