They are awesome cats! I got one about 4 months back. My boyfriend isn't a cat person but she has converted him. We have 2 dogs and they adore her. They are very high energy cats and they need a lot of attention. I wouldn't get just one unless you already have another animal to keep it company. If mine didn't have the dogs to entertain her, she would drive me insane. When the dogs get tired of playing, she does laps around the house occasionally stopping to try to climb the walls or destroy the toilet paper.

In my area $500 is on the low end. Mine isn't registered and I paid half that...It took me over a year to find a purebred in my price range and I drove 3 hours to pick her up, but she was well worth the wait

Here are a couple older pictures, still in the 'fuzzy ugly' stage, her spots have come out a lot more recently: