Plantuml class diagram with multiple children: Any way to bifurcate the arrow?

Question

My attempt:

Animal <|-- Cat
Animal <|-- Dog

Result:

  ┌────────┐
  │ Animal │
  └────────┘
   Δ      Δ
   │      │
┌──┴──┐┌──┴──┐
│ Cat ││ Dog │
└─────┘└─────┘

That is not how a class diagram is supposed to look like.

This is:

  ┌────────┐
  │ Animal │
  └────────┘
      Δ
   ┌──┴───┐
┌──┴──┐┌──┴──┐
│ Cat ││ Dog │
└─────┘└─────┘

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As suggested, I asked if this is possible on the PlantUML forum.

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

@startuml
class Animal
together {
  class Dog
  class Cat
}
Animal <|-- Cat
Dog -- (Animal, Cat)
@enduml