Quote Originally Posted by Cryptic View Post
How can you "not be able to take care of" a cat? You clean its litter box, give it food and water every day, and let it sit on your lap and/or sleep with you when it wants to. If it gets sick, you take it to the vet. Done. Cat taken care of.
There ARE situations in which a cat is implausible.

For one, maybe he just does not want his house to smell like cat shit. I could not take care of one in my current situation, my lease forbids it unless I pay some ridiculously high pet fee. With my job, I can sometime be gone almost all day sometimes, meaning leaving at 7 am and not getting home until 8 or 9. Sometimes I need to travel overnight and stay for my job, plus, the hassle of caring for a cat.

Don't get me wrong, I love cats, and dogs, but... meh.

P.S. My mental image of sycld was looking much more fragile and gay, more like this: