Humans' beloved feline companions had made their ways to modern day Finland during the game's period, in fact (according to some googling)!
Cats would act as natural vermin fenders of your settlement. Thus if cats were added, it would be a good opportunity to also add small vermins the likes of mice and rats.
The main way to acquire a cat would be by trading with a village (maybe the Driiki should be guaranteed to have some, the others possibly, while the northern tribes very rarely if at all).
Alternatively one might come across feral cats, which the player could attempt to tame as one would in real life - with slow prolonged exposure to you and offerings of food and warm shelter. It shouldn't be a guaranteed success though, and feral cats should be a rare sight overall as they were still a newcomer species during the period.
Topic: Cats! (and mice/rats?) (Read 2330 times)