addedentry would really like a cat; I do like cats, but I don't like any of the stuff that goes with owning cats (scratched floors/furniture, everything being covered in hair and/or wee, catfood all over the floor, getting woken at 5 a.m. by scratching, having to deal with the litter tray)

If it helps any, training can fix scratching if it's a problem (never really was with Ceefer or Mumu), no wee unless you count Ceefer's illness towards the end. Keeping them indoors at night seemed to turn them mostly diurnal, too.

I'm still finding cat hair months after both the cats have gone, though. ;-)