Beautiful area there, stayed at Mohican once in the fall, beautiful. Elyria was more of a rust belt, most of the snow was to the east of us. Still don't miss it. If we lived around where you are we might have stayed. Our area was really depressed many years ago, heard it's worse. Had only steel mills, GM and a Ford factory in Lorain, they all closed.
Keep me us informed with the house guest, maybe when he saw all the cats, he made a run for it. Just like the one in your post. :D