Ask SFist: Homeless Folks And Their Pets

SFist received a pressing (albeit insensitive and Nevius-esque) question in the editor's inbox this afternoon. Perhaps you can help? A reader (who asked to remain anonymous) writes:

There are these two horrible drunk hobos who live on my street, and recently they acquired a kitten this morning. The kitten pooped all over their shopping cart, and as I walked past, they were all upset about it.

Then the one guy said, "Hang on, I'm gonna more of them free papers." and he took a stack of SF Weekly's to clean up his shopping cart. [Note: This is not a swipe at SF Weekly, alt-weeklies, or the current fight brewing between Mission Mission and SFoodie. -- SFist]

When I walked up to them to ask for the kitty's name, the female hobo's response was this "Hissh name ishhh troublemakerrrrr."

My question is this, I really want to buy the kitten from them. Is that wrong to feel that the homeless aren't the best of pet owners? After all, I would buy it from them. If you offered a falling-down drunk hobo $70, he couldn't say no.

[Name redacted]

Aside from our reader's glaring -- glaring! --lack of sensitivity to hobos, does anyone want to offer their spare change? Do you think it's OK to purchase animals from San Francisco's homeless population?