[Snake]

This quest is not very newplayer-friendly given Fluffles can hide behind houses and keep moving in circles, completely avoiding the eyes of even oldbies. People never really care much about it because they don't care about CEL for being tanks, so that's why no one raised a complaint about the worst and most long or RNG-heavy quest to be completed out of all the other stamps.

Could this pest give you a sign they're in the specific housing sect for players as they enter the map? Something like

"You can see some recent scratch marks here and there... Whoever left those may not be far from here."

And on top of that, if the mob spots a player...

"MEOW! HISS! SHINEI!"

As that cat tries to move away.