Yes, but they don't seem interested in displaying very much urgency about it. Both of them keep wandering off to look at trees, rocks, et cetera.

Does... pointing and asking them to go That Way help at all?

It helps somewhat.

While she is attempting to get them to do this, they're ambushed by a purple cat!

Oh, well, fortunately both her not-"paralyzed" creatures are out already and can dogpile it! "Tackle! Scratch!"

Wooliam does this enthusiastically!

Pauta is not quite as enthusiastic as Wooliam, but still seems happy to participate. (Her scratches seem to be hitting noticeably harder than they were when she fought the Riolu.)

Now there is an unconscious ?cat? on the ground.

Oh, maybe she overdid it, now she can't catch the cat-thing. ...right? That doesn't work?

If she tries with an empty Pokéball, it doesn't seem to register the cat's existence at all.

Whoops.

Well, she's not sure how many of these she even wants to be responsible for, that other guy only had one. But it's hard to make progress with Wooliam and Pauta out anyway, so she will put them away and just have Wooliam ready to go if she sees anything else jump out. Walk walk.

Eventually the grass thins out again.

Up ahead on the road, there's a really young-looking kid, maybe about five years old.

"...are you lost?"

"I am NOT lost!!! I'm the STRONGEST trainer in Virbank City's entire PRESCHOOL and I'm going to WIN!"

He reaches for a Pokéball.

Wow, okay, she did not quite process all the implications of how inexpensive, easily handled, and necessary the Pokémon here are. Sure. She'll let Pauta have a turn.

The preschooler also sends out a Psyduck.

"Ducky can BEAT UP your Psyduck!! Because he's the best Psyduck ever!!!"

"I bet Pauta can give him a run for his money! Go on, Pauta!"

"You can do it, Ducky!!!"

Ducky shoots a blast of water at Pauta. 

Pauta mostly shrugs it off and starts scratching at Ducky.

They exchange a couple rounds of blows. It seems like Ducky is a bit sturdier than Pauta, but for whatever reason the water blasts aren't really doing much to her. Eventually Pauta is able to knock Ducky out.

"Wow! You're better than EVERYONE at Virbank Preschool!"

"Maybe I'm just very lucky and Pauta did all the work. Is that your last one, I can heal them."

"WOW!" He hands her some loose change and waits for her to heal Ducky.

Channel. "You did very well, Pauta," she says, petting her own Psyduck.

"How did you DO that?"