Although Litten are popular household pets in Alola – and, increasingly, around the world - they are also fire hazards. Unlike many fire pokemon, a Litten's body contains no open flames, but this fact has often only led their trainers to underestimate the danger they pose. For Litten, like other feline pokemon, are often disobedient and only half-domesticated in the best of times. And just like a Meowth's bouts of kleptomania can drive their trainers to bankruptcy and prison, a Litten's fire can leave its trainer homeless, along with the rest of the neighborhood.
In the early days of Alola's history, long before the invention and arrival of microwaves and toaster ovens, the family Litten would be prized for its skill in hunting and cooking meat. The parts of wild pokemon which Litten eat have remarkably little overlap with those that appear in Alolan cuisine – too little to have evolved by coincidence, although scientists dispute whether Litten generously spared choice bits for humanity's sake, or whether humans learned to only eat what Litten would claim as leftovers.
In the modern world, technology has made it far easier to prepare food without a pokemon's help, urbanization has made Litten fires far more destructive, and studies and position papers frequently advocate curbs on owning this pokemon, or even outright bans. But the people of Alola love their Litten as much as their ancestors did, and few jurisdictions around the world are willing to outlaw the ownership of such an adorable pet.
After all, the voters repeatedly assert, there are dangers inherent in keeping any domestic pokemon. But it is their duty as pokemon trainers to live in harmony with them all the same.