I've heard that cats are hard to adjust to new places, so that's good. I always enjoyed renting in households that had permanent resident pets. 

I lived in a place that had a brown lab called Argus, a tortoise, and maybe a cat, can't remember. The tortoise would spend his time in the garden or some corner of the terrace. 

I'm sure there was a cat to keep out the mice. 

Speaking of stripes on a cat, I saw a cat with gray and silver stripes on its head and shoulders, and then fluffy mixed gray fur on the rest of it. I never saw a cat with half/half before. 

Unless it was a sliver striped cat that got its butt in a cinder pile. I think it was a wild cat in Austin by the bushy tail and unkempt air. A survivor from our coyotes.