Dilemma time.
There is a woman on my Freecycle list who wants to adopt out her five-year-old female cat (because she's just had a baby and evidently her husband and the baby are both exhibiting allergies)...
...it's a $200 pet deposit and $10 more a month on my rent. Do I adopt?
Other considerations:
1) I've never been owned by a cat.
2) I don't know if she'll come with litter & so forth
3) The local shelter is a no-kill shelter
4) I'll be gone for six days at the end of the month, when she'll have been with me less than a week, and won't be able to deliver her to family for cat sitting.
5) Not to mention rootiekazootie's kittens.
6) And Zig and Zag.