Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Allow me to be the voice of reason. Of course you will feel all noble and shit giving the cat a home, thinking you have good karma for it, etc, but this really isn't the case. The cat will be ungreatful and destroy your home.

I took in a stray before. A vet found a small stray kitten and nursed it back to health, and I adopted it.
- It would refuse to eat dry food. If I put dry food, it gave me a look as if I shit in its food bowl. Wet food only.
- It pissed all over the house
- It scratched everything
- It wouldn't let anyone pet it
- It went into a suitcase full of cloths evidently thinking that was its litter box
- It shit everywhere
- It generally acted like a fucking wild animal.

This was the thanks I got for taking in the stray. Me, a human, the dominant species on the planet, had to live in cat piss and cat shit. Thank fucking god it ran away.

Before anyone says oh i didn't train it properly, I now have a purebred siamese, which hasn't destroyed a single piece of furniture, eats whatever i put in his bowl, and the thought of pissing or shitting anywhere outside of his litter box has not even crossed his mind. He comes inside to use his litter box when he's outdoors.

I don't want to sound heartless but take that thing to the pound, otherwise you might just find yourself cleaning up cat piss and shit off your cloths and furniture because thats what the cat will think you are there for. You can't give up your quality of life and standard of living because some animal decided to waltz in.