Hi everyone, I am new to this subreddit. I've been grappling with feelings of guilt about my FIV+ feral cat. He always wants to go outside but I've never been able to afford my own home and he won't come back when I call him. He also slips every cat leash I've tried and gotten lost for weeks at a time. Thanks to kind neighbors and family members I have been able to bring him home every time. I've even gone so far as to completely change the state I am in for him. Buying a house with a yard is not an option for many people in California so I've uprooted myself to Florida. I have immediate family here and I feel supported but it's a big change. I am just starting an amazing full time position working for Disney but the only housing I could get being a cross-country transplant was a room in a heavy chain smokers house. I had to sign a one year lease to get it and I had no other options due to having to drive cross country in 4 days. Now I feel like I have failed my cat because the smell of smoke permeates everything when the AC turns on. I don't know if it is going to cause him distress when I leave to work long hours and I have to close the window. Is it okay for him to be in this situation for one year? I will be able to buy us a mobile home in Florida at the end of this lease and will be able to provide him an outdoor enclosure once it is up and then save for a downpayment on a small home. I just don't know if he will suffer throughout this process. It would devastate me to have to give him up and I would rather be homeless pushing him around in a big cage with a shopping cart outside than let him suffer.
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