do you have the time?
do you have the paticence?
do you have the money?
do you have enough comentiment (sp!!)
do you have an apartment or house?
do you have a good vet near your house?
do you know that this could be a 10+ year comentiment (sp!!)

Those are even more important questions.

There are more shelters that kill the animals, than the ones that don't. That's a fact.