English Translation:
Cat: Do you have a cat?
Girl: No.
Cat: Now you have one!
Girl: And that's how I got a cat.
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The translation is precise, but for some reason it doesn't carry the same degree of humor. I think it may have to do with the way Spanish handles the indefinite article "a cat."
Edit: ok, that might be part of it, but there's also the way he tells her that she now has a cat. The word-for-word translation differs slightly in meaning from the figurative translation. There's something that's lost, maybe a degree of finality?
I would have translated better without the "a" to make it wrong and same level of absurd.