So we have been a dog family, my brother, uncle's grandparents, professional dog breeders and trainers who can bird dog family for multi generations. I've never owned a cat. Our dog died right before Christmas. Last year.

At the same point that my dog was dying a black cat. Feral. He was born 2 and a 1/2 now, about 3 years ago on the other side of the street, a couple houses down in somebody's backyard started walking to school with my kids in the morning.

Previous to that there had been a little black kitten that I would see out in my yard when I'm doing the yard work darkening out for my bushes, maybe it would even get into my garage occasionally, I don't know if this is the same cat hard coincidence. But that little black kitten would hang out. Especially under a Bay window that I have And that's also where this current cat likes to hang out so that wild cat would follow my kids all the way down to the bus stop, and then the afternoon would follow them home. And then one day I came home and the cat was laying on the couch.On my front porch. That was right after our dog passed away.
The kids asked if we could try to keep him now said okay, so we started the process of bringing this Wild cat into our home and we would let him come in for a couple hours at a time, and then let him back out to roam around the neighborhood. He was constantly getting in fights. And losing not a very good fighter. I brought him in one night because I didn't want him to be outside anymore. As a black cat, we had coyotes running through the neighborhood at night, and I wanted to see what he would be like throughout the night, so I stayed up all night. I had bought 2 litter boxes and introduced him to them a couple days before And I was I had no idea what he would do to our house, whether he would spray everywhere, tear c*** up, or what throughout the night he slept, about 6 feet from me and then got up and used the litter box. He didn't tear anything up.I'll let him out in the morning.. From that point we started adopting him Took him to the vet, started getting the shots treat his ears for earmites, got him. Snipped, etc. He's a cat that I can walk outside and call, and if he's within a block eventually he'll start trotting down to come see me. He kills about 3 mice a day at least, and with this vol and mice explosion His vol and mice slain skills are invaluable. He's still an outside cat. Most of the time, but he comes inside and then we want him to and at night way better than a dog in many ways, because I don't have to worry about him, he's pretty much self-sufficient if he doesn't come home at night, we don't worry about him. We know he can survive outside because he did it on his own for 2 and a 1/2 years, and he eats the mice did I. Mention that he is a mouse slayer, which is why I like this cat friendly mouse killer. Doesn't tear c*** up, doesn't spray? Uses the Kitty litter. I was very affectionate with my kids. I can't stand other cats