My wife just got a rescue Maine Coon cat (against my advise), but he is kinda nice and kills chipmunks.
(against my advise).. C’mon. Cats is cool. I got a thirty pounder who’s as mean as piss on a griddle, but he follows me around like a dog. I drink on the porch and he don’t leave. Eyes the neighborhood critters, though.
Both of ours are resuces, too. They’re really neat cats. Very distinct personalities and a quirky intelligence. If they haven’t been abused, they make really great family members. We got our first one, Norman vas Paus from the Kootenai Animal Shelter as a just-weaned kitten. Last summer was the Summer of Norman.
Six months later, we got Miss Olivia from another rescue operation. She’s a pure bred, but she’d been abandoned. All too common thing these days. She’d been chipped, so her history wasn’t a complete mystery. We figured that Norman needed a pal, and it’s worked out really, really well.
Have fun with yours.