I never saw one irl, but I've seen pictures and they really look huge (which means I want one xD), my female cat doesn't like being touched either, always meows angrily when touched when she doesn't want to, her brother however doesn't mind at all and even loves sleeping on my lap. In gen 2 I don't remember pokémon outbreaks, then again I didn't get everyone's numbers, they usually just called me to talk about their ratatas, or how they caught a pokemon just to free it later and etc x3
And yeah that would make your friends in X/Y much more helpfull and people would probaly like them better, and okay, shouldn't be too hard to find, most links that appear to me are in portuguese because of where I live.