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Argh. That doesn't work. The "were-" in "werewolf" means "man" and there are no humans in that comic.
Unfortunately there don't seem to be many ancient synonyms for "house" like there are for "human", so it's not really possible to obfuscate the meaning in the way that "were-" does.
house-warehouse doesn't really roll off the tongue well, and it's open to the misinterpretation of "houseware-house", which is something else entirely.
Badly translating back into Old English gives hūswāruhūs, which, if you corrupt vowels to "huswarahus", does kind of sound like a cryptid.
It still works as a pun, and is funny.
Comedy is not meant to be logical.