If I were sure the brother wouldn't change his mind again, I'd give him back and adopt a shelter cat too. Why did your brother want to give him away in the first place? Is that situation likely to recur?

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.