The backstory is that the cat's owner is an international student who has returned to China. She thinks she will be back in January but I am doubtful that her parents will let her return that soon. If she does not return then, she would probably not return until the autumn of 2021. She left behind a very friendly but also very long-haired cat that gives me very bad allergies to the point that I awoke from not being able to breathe multiple times. The cat's owner does still want her cat.
Right now, the available options seem to be:
- Find someone to foster cat. (Owner is willing to pay $150 a month and order food and litter online to the foster home.)
- Fly cat to China. (Was quoted $6000.)
- Cat hotel. ($750-$3000 a month in my area.)
- Keep the cat upstairs instead of downstairs in my house. We originally moved the cat downstairs into the library where he would have company and be more easily monitored. When my allergies were bad enough to wake me up, both the cat and I were staying downstairs.
- Abandon the cat at a shelter.
No one I know who I trust to take care of a cat well wants to foster a cat for a number of unknown months. The cat's owner's friends have so far also refused for various reasons. The most amusing/concerning reason was that one individual was already fostering too many pets from all the other international students who had left the US.
I believe the cat's owner is not considering flying the cat to China or using a cat hotel because of the costs. She stopped mentioning those possibilities after I gave her the quotes.
The room upstairs we would keep the cat in would be the farthest room in the house. My allergies were not as bad when the cat and his owner were in a room upstairs, though I did have to move downstairs. We would obviously would visit the cat two or three times a day. Because I am pregnant, my father would have to handle the cat's litter. He is also allergic to the cat and walked around the house with an air mask by the second week we tried keeping the cat downstairs. I would try to visit the cat about 10 minutes at a time twice a day, but I believe that the cat would probably still become depressed and lonely. We originally moved this cat downstairs because of those mental health concerns, but it is clear that neither my father nor I can live with the cat downstairs in the room where he works.
My father stated that if the house is still not habitable for him and me with the cat upstairs and the cat's owner cannot come up with some other plan, we will drop the cat off at a shelter. His perspective would be that we tried and it failed. I see my father's stance as reasonable, but the owner does want her cat back. On the bright side, one of my friends has stated that she will adopt the cat if we get to the send-cat-to-shelter stage.
The cat is currently with one of my friends who generously offered to take in the cat temporarily. I instructed the cat's owner to make some plan for her cat from amongst the above 5 options. Am I overlooking any other possible options?
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