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[Poll #1260352]

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[ethernight.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend was looking into being a foster mom for kittens for awhile. You take in a litter of kitties that are too young to adopt and care for them for a few weeks, then send them away to find homes. It seems like it could be an ideal situation for you. You can scratch your OMG KITTEH itch, but not be accountable for long term responsibility.

Also, there is volunteering at a no-kill shelter for kitten pettins. Happier kitties, happier xtina, no troubling silly allergy folk!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

You can get over an allergic boything, but getting a cat with an allergic housemate is (1) cruel to the housemate, and (2) a recipe for horrible housemate dynamics, if not sudden lease-breaking.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Have I given off the impression that I would do this without talking to the housefolk first?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

This poll is the only place I've noticed you mention it, and I originally read the poll as helping you make up your own mind in isolation from others. I didn't think about whether you'd ask them or not, and I think that's where my original comment came from.

Thinking about it more now, even suggesting getting a cat when someone in the house is known to be allergic seems like a rude and ill-considered thing to do. I mean, what would happen if the allergic housemate said yes, and then it turned out s/he couldn't take it? And how horrible would the housemate feel if you were all puppy-dog-eyed going "please please, just one little kitty" and the housemate were all "I hate cats, plz die now, 'kay"? I just don't think it's a fair position to put the housemate in since you already know s/he's allergic.

FWIW I'm allergic to everything with fur, so I'm bound to be more sympathetic to the allergic housemate.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's what I get for posting.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Just trying to give the flipside of cute kitties. I love kitties. I really wish I wasn't allergic to them, but I am. For a couple years while T$ and I were dating, one of his housemates had a cat, and on some days I couldn't visit him for more than a half hour without becoming absolutely miserable, even though the cat wasn't allowed in his room. I couldn't picture ever living with a cat w/o getting allergy shots, which I'd really rather not do. Mayhaps your housemate's allergies aren't as bad as mine though.

Not intended to hurt your feelings or anything, I'm sorry if I have...

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

There's already a cat in the house, so it's not entirely unreasonable for the_xtina to consider this.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Ah, that is information I wasn't privy to. That makes it less of a horrible thing to suggest adding another. I guess the allergic housemate isn't as allergic as I am then.