So I found this cat a few days ago. It's a very nice good: good-tempered, not destructive, healthy, etc. and I told everyone that I'm going to keep it if I can't find an owner (I really doubt it has an owner although it's obviously been around people before), but now I'm having second thoughts about it. I don't know if I'll have the money to pay for it and Pansy (my dog), and I'm really not a cat person, nor was I planning on getting another animal, but like I said it's a very good cat and I already told everyone I'm going to keep it, so I don't want to change my mind and then have them think ill of me. It would have been different if I had just found it and taken it to the Humane Society right away. Pansy and it (I have been calling the cat Voldie) get along ok. I think Pansy is somewhat jealous of Voldie and also she doesn't understand cats because she tries to get Voldie to play with her and it doesn't understand what she's doing. Voldie is a very nice cat. It purrs and rubs up against everything all the time, and likes to come sit in my lap and purr, but I just don't know if I can keep it. I like Voldie very much, but I'm not a cat person, and I really don't want to have a cat for the next 20 years that I wasn't planning on getting in the first place because it showed up at my doorstep and then I told everyone I was going to keep it, so that I just keep it so people don't think I'm being mean by not keeping it. So I'm really not sure what I'm going to do right now. I'm going to put up some signs and take it to the Humane Society to make sure it's not microchipped, but I really don't think it belongs to anyone. It's obviously been around people before, because it's not feral, but it had no collar when I found it (it literally showed up on my doorstep when I was about to leave to go see PoA), and my neighbors on the right said they'd seen it around and had been feeding it, and also a lot of people downtown don't let their cats out, so I'm assuming that someone probably had it and just let it go when they moved, as is sadly common around here with a lot of animals. I'm kind of hoping Voldie will turn out to belong to somone so this will be decided for me, but if it doesn't, I'm going to really have to think about what I want to do with it. One of my soon-to-be roommates said she'd like to get a cat, but I feel guilty just finding this cat and palming it off to her, and then it'd still be living with me, which was part of what I didn't know if I wanted to deal with, and also I am allergic to cats, and I've been having a bit of a reaction to Voldie although I haven't been taking my allergy pills lately, or for a long time for that matter. Cats are okay with me. I don't hate them, but I am definitely not a cat person, although I like Voldie. I just don't know if I like Voldie enough to want to keep it for 20 years, because cats live a long time, and I don't want to keep it just out of some social obligation or because I don't want people to think I'm a bad person, and also I really don't know if I have the money to pay for a cat and a dog. I was planning on spending $80/month on Pansy after I move, but I don't know if $80/month will cover both Pansy and Voldie, and I really can't spend anymore than that because I just don't have the money. So right now I'm just hoping that Voldie does indeed belong to someone so that the decision will be made for me. 
