And can they be caught?

They can vocalise more than just their names, so if anything, they're Digimon.

now THATS a hot take. "Pokemon are Digimon."
- That's not what he said. He said humans are Digimon, not Pokémon. Pokémon are Yugiohs, duh.
I don't think this is true, there's some Pokémon that speak normal language like meowth, lucario, legendaries etc...
- But they're few and far between. Every Digimon can talk.
Idk i think that's just how Pokemon moo or whatever and the names are onomatopoetic.
- Pikachu speak at the very least has some structure to it. "Pika-Pi" is Ash's name, for instance.
Only those who have beaten the Pokémon league can be digimon. Because in order to be a digimon you must be the champion

In lore it says humans and Pokemon used to be indistinguishable. So probably yeah

And then in Legends Arceus suddenly humans barely understood how to interact with Pokemon barely a few hundred years before modern times. What genius came up with that nonsense?
- They forgor 💀
Didn't humans also marry and breed with Pokémon?
- ...I try not to think about that part.
- So are you saying there's a change of marrying vulpix or eevee?
- A guy Brundleflyed himself with one.

No, as regular animals exist in the Pokemon world, too. The original games had cats and dogs in some houses. The cartoon showed non Pokemon birds flying alongside pidgeys and such.

The original games also made the claim that Pokemon came from space. They only showed up after a meteorite.

I thought they retconned that in later seasons of the anime though.
- Which part? That Pokemon came from space or the inclusion of common animals like dogs and cats? I didn't even know the show continued beyond my high school years until I saw all the talk about the show finally ending recently so I personally have no idea what they changed but the recent games I have played make the origin of the pokemon more mystical.
Can you put normal animals in a pokeball or is the tech bound to the specific alien dna of pokemons and can humans be put in pokeballs, and how dos this all fit in human trafficking technology?

Pokeballs get really sinister when you think about them too deeply.

Pokemon is glorified dog fighting.
But wait, it gets worse. Do Pokemon experience time inside the pokeballs? It's so, they're essentially spend 99% of their life in prison.
If not, then nearly all their life is spent fighting.
Or not.

Yes. Because answering "no" is more troublesome.

Humon.

I thought Pokémon were not animals at all but their own beings separate from the animal kingdom

I think they have normal animals as well as Pokemon in the Pokemon world though.

There are a handful of shots of regular fish in underwater scenes but that's probably due to lazy animators that didn't give a shit about the franchise they were working on.
Eh, pretty much only the first seasons of the anime reference non-pokemon animals. All the media for the past 20 years only mention other Pokemon when talking about food, prey, etc.

Pokemon aren't "animals", they're kami.

Cirno is a Pokemon.

And the gods are the trainers

A true philosopher

Today, we hunt he most dangerous Pokémon

Aren't there non-pokemon animals in pokemon?

all humans are animals

all dogs are animals

therefore humans are dogs

not a very good argument imo

but that's just straight up not the same logic at all
You're doing all A are in C, all B are in C =⟩ A is in B, which makes no sense and isn't what they said.
They said all A are in B, all B are in C =⟩ A are in C, which is true by the transitive property.
All humans are animals
All animals are Pokemon
Therefore all humans are Pokemon
All humans are animals All dogs are animals Not all animals are dogs Not animals are humans But all the animals in modern Pokemon are Pokemon So the question is Does animal == Pokemon If so human are Pokemon But if animal != Pokemon Then humans != Pokemon and human == animal