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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 think "You do now." probably works better than "Now you have one!" It feels more threatening.
(Disclaimer: I'm a native speaker or neither English nor Spanish.)
And the first panel: "Got a cat?"
Or even "Got cat?"