I acquired Mac in Kearny Mesa, California. That’s in the southern part of the state near San Diego. Actually, I think it may actually be IN San Diego, but my memory fails. It’s right around there however. My partner wanted a cat, and found a rescue that he asked me to visit. I walked into a room of cats, and Mac just sat in the middle of the floor staring at me while all of the other cats scattered away. I picked him up and he was just super friendly. He was a kitten at the time. He was a very brave, very dominant cat. Had I known that, I may have gone a different route because he was an absolute terror until her grew up… which I’m estimating was about 5 years. He was just after attention all the time, so yelling at him was not a deterrent. He was a curtain-climber, couch scratcher, and always trying to get out the door to see what was out there. He got out a few times, but came back in a couple of days.

Years later we moved back to Indiana, and Mac was happy with our new house. We were able to put a large dog cage against the back of the house without the back panel attached. You could open the kitchen window and he could go outside within the cage and enjoy the outdoors. Well, we thought that’s all that would happen. Mac was a stalker. He’d sit in that cage and wait until another animal came close (we’re talking chipmunks, squirrels, a rabbit, and more), and he would grab them, pull them through the bars, and bring them into the house! It was a bit of a nightmare trying to get wild animals out of the house. I don’t know how he pulled that poor little rabbit through the cage doors, but it had to hurt.

The funniest one that I remember, was that Mac came downstairs where I was working and he had a weird look on his face. I could tell that something was in his mouth. Yes, it was a tree frog that he released unharmed onto the wall. Mac never hurt any of the animals he brought into the house. He just brought them inside for some reason. However, there was one chipmunk that we never found. I guess it got out on its own.