If you and your daughter end up adopting kitties, make double sure that vet bills are included in the budget. It can cost MEGA bucks if the animal gets sick...
Example: We spent $1000.00 on Jake's health before he died...$600 of that alone was for pulling some teeth that the idiot vet said was causing his breathing problems...obviously NOT the problem, but tell that idiot vet that! We trusted her, and shouldn't have...not when she was simply trying to pad her income at the expense of my dog's life.
Vet bills are outrageous these days...they make as much as my own surgeon did...or more.