The title is a reference to Matt Maltese's song Hello, Black Dog, where the narrator struggles to escape the pervasive presence of "The black dog," a metaphor for fighting against depression and one's inner demons. Along a similar line, the cat in the animation is caught in a surge of anxious thought, encountering a canine prowling amid her headspace and rapaciously devouring her "stars," later hunting her down upon an incidental moment of eye contact.