Great to see you around!
There are a lot of puns, so if you have a good tolerance for ambiguity and won’t get too hung up on them, it might be fine. I was ok with that at that stage (although I still need to actually finish this, as I got distracted with other reading before I did!), but that is something that a lot of people thought was tough about this manga as an early manga, so something to keep in mind. If you do read it, then make good use of the vocab spreadsheet, the club threads, and there is also this frequency based analysis of vocab.
Another manga in the genre of “animals being silly and chilling out” but easier would be the recent 小さな森のオオカミちゃん. But enthusiasm and the archived club threads would be plenty to get you through this! Other options: join the next live club, or go through the list of previous ABBC picks and look up the easier ones on Natively to see what interests you most. (Also keep Satori in mind if you want a bit more prep before jumping into the ABBC level, that was a huge help to prepare me for making it through my first ABBC, and in fact I’m still a subscriber).
I personally made a couple of starts at going through previous clubs slower, but it was joining my first club live that got me all the way to the end of a manga. Just know that it gets easier a lot faster, and now in the most recent clubs the vocab sheets are often pre-made and there is frequency based information to make it easier to learn the highest frequency vocab. It’s really a lot smoother than it was even a year ago!