Seems like a no-brainer, I'm sure, but:

I was walking home in the rain with my girlfriend yesterday and we heard a collarless kitten crying from under a dumpster.  Initially, I was convinced I should take it home, but while trying to transport it, every passing car would frighten it back into its hideout.  While going home to find a box to bring it, I realized I could only keep it outside because of an allergic roommate.

Now, I don't have any issues with keeping a cat outside and feeding it, but my concern is that I will not be living here very long and moving back to the city soon where I would be unable to keep it outside any longer.  I don't think socializing a cat to live outdoors and then moving it indoors is a wise decision, especially for how little I know of taking care of any animals.  I don't know of anybody looking for a cat and I'm not sure I can find one (though I think I'll advertise, anyway, if the cat is still there when I get home).

So my last thought is that it likely has a mother cat taking care of it, considering it looked too young to have an owner and too old to be abandoned by its mother at birth.  My reasoning was, a mother cat will likely take better care of it than I will, and properly raise it.

What would you do, Reddit?  I'm kind of torn up about this moral dilemma since I don't really know much about taking care of cats.  It'd be one thing if I had a house I could keep it in, but with my uncertainty about my future living conditions (not to mention that I'm not exactly loaded with cash)...well, tell me what you think.
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Seems like a no-brainer, I'm sure, but:

I was walking home in the rain with my girlfriend yesterday and we heard a collarless kitten crying from under a dumpster.  Initially, I was convinced I should take it home, but while trying to transport it, every passing car would frighten it back into its hideout.  While going home to find a box to bring it, I realized I could only keep it outside because of an allergic roommate.

Now, I don't have any issues with keeping a cat outside and feeding it, but my concern is that I will not be living here very long and moving back to the city soon where I would be unable to keep it outside any longer.  I don't think socializing a cat to live outdoors and then moving it indoors is a wise decision, especially for how little I know of taking care of any animals.  I don't know of anybody looking for a cat and I'm not sure I can find one (though I think I'll advertise, anyway, if the cat is still there when I get home).

So my last thought is that it likely has a mother cat taking care of it, considering it looked too young to have an owner and too old to be abandoned by its mother at birth.  My reasoning was, a mother cat will likely take better care of it than I will, and properly raise it.

What would you do, Reddit?  I'm kind of torn up about this moral dilemma since I don't really know much about taking care of cats.  It'd be one thing if I had a house I could keep it in, but with my uncertainty about my future living conditions (not to mention that I'm not exactly loaded with cash)...well, tell me what you think.
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