I don't know whether this is a bug or normal, but when I use the phirana pet, I've noticed something wierd. Sometimes when something the phirana is attacking and gets defeated, somehow it activates an animation showing me eating the creature, even if I'm not in beast form. This happens with any form seemingly and I'm not sure if the effects transfer over to beast form or not, but I'm thinking it actually does because I have gotten beast form shots from stuff that I didn't actually eat myself in beast form, but the phirana 'ate'.
This doesn't happen every time a creature is defeated, but it happens quite often.
I would have put this in support, but I have no idea whether this is normal or not, and I haven't heard it bieng mentioned.