You should never leave your shoes unattended at Warren and Becky Johnson’s modern Prairie-style home. That’s because Samson, a 40-pound African serval cat with long, well, everything — legs, ears, teeth, claws — might mistake your size 8s for dinner. But don’t worry. The 12-year-old feline, which the Johnsons have had since he was a kitten, isn’t as pouncy and wild as he was six or seven years ago. Besides, he prefers raw chicken and shrimp to cotton and leather. These days he more or less leisurely perches, leaps and climbs through the Oklahoma City brick-and-glass home with his two semiwild Savannah cat buddies. And, being the alpha male in the house, he only occasionally terrorizes the Johnsons’ two large dogs. Once you see the Johnsons’ home, with its fantastical pavilion roof made of feathered wood slats, a glass-bottomed mezzanine for the cats and all kinds of head-turning architectural details, you just may feel the invite was worth losing your shoes over.

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