I'm disappointed that we could find no way to save the cat.
Re: earlier poster, the cat could not be traded with. We did the quest to kill the evil Rat King and the cat was all like 'good job, you are a good person for doing that' and then told us where the Hidden Villagers were (even though we'd already found them).
But once again as my partner said, when the giant brawl started when we exposed the Orks, the Mountain Men immediately turned on us (we did not hit them with any AoE, they were red from the beginning)and somehow the cat showed up to get into the fight. The fight wasn't even anywhere near the poor cat, it just ran over to get a piece of the action.
Poor cat was killed by Grutilda, who paid with her life. But the cat was still attacking US before that happened. What did we do to deserve such cat ire? The cat was nice and supposed to be our friend.
In summary, please fix the cat AI and the AI for this entire town.