When I used to breed Burmese cats I sold a kitten to a family with two children, one of which was disabled, mentally and physically. I wasn't sure how things would go because Burmese cats can be crazy sometimes.
Things went better than I ever imagined. The kitten took to the disabled child as the child did to the kitten. Friends for life.
Added to that, the new owners didn't tell me they had a mouse problem in the area. After a month or two, one day they came home to nine dead mice lined up near the back step.....all caught and killed by their new pet. The mice were all evenly spaced apart and when one of the owners gingerly moved the tail of one of them, their 'fearless feline humter' moved quickly to straighten out the tail to match the rest. Clearly it was a proud moment to be displayed to the human family.
I seldom heard from new owners of my kittens but in this case the owners were so delighted with the kitten they came back and told me how things went. One very happy child....and very soon there wasn't a mouse to be found. Not bad for a kitten raised indoors with parents (I owned both sire and dam) who had never had the opportunity to catch a single mouse, let alone nine.
