answer:I’d have two options. Do my best for them even though I can provide very little. I always see street kids and punks with dogs, usually big dogs, who seem to want to stay with them. If you can’t always afford food for the animal, I’m sure it can do with scraps or whatever it scrounges up…but that would suck, really. Putting your animal through that. Animals are born survivors of course, but unless I own a wolf or a bear, cats and dogs are very dependent on human care, and can can do very badly if their needs are not properly met. Having said that, a lot of this probably depends on the breed, especially when it comes to dogs. And in my case, it would be cats though. Cats are survivors, but they do really bad when freaked out by traffic. :( I’ve also read that outside cats don’t have as long a life as house cats, even if there are no cars around. It’s not like I could tie them up while I’m panhandling, unless I did have some trailer or shack to keep them in. If the option of trying to get by with them didn’t work, I’d give them up for adoption, in the hopes that whoever I gave them to, or whatever organization took them, they would be well cared for. I could ask friends if they want to look out for them, which would be my first option, if this question did not suggest that there are no immediate solutions for my homelessness. I’d probably ask anyway. I wouldn’t want to give up my two cats, but I would want what is best for them, which probably would mean having to give them up. :/ That would probably be the more realistic option, but I would hope someone I know would be willing to look out for them until I fixed myself up.