When my current cat, that most excellent fellow, was a kitten less that 6 months old, he did battle and won against a field rat twice his size! I have seen him slay possums! He is a mixed breed, fur like Sylvester, built like a bulldog, with a HUGE head and neck. He is somewhat diminished since I was forced to have him snipped after an extended disappearance from which he returned deathly ill. Although he has always been as gentle and lazy a cat as you have ever seen, he still has the fury in him when an unauthorized intruder rustles in the brush!
An excellent, excellent cat. Please stop me, as I will go on and on all night with TRUE stories of this guy's heroism and good nature. Kind! Lets kittens and other cats eat before he takes his own! Teaches kittens who are not his own how to fight. The cat has amazed EVERYONE who has ever had the pleasure of witnessing either his affable good nature or his valor in battle! He is truly some kind of Kat-fu savant.
We were very lucky the day he chose my daughter.