[Evans, Marv]

Cats are kittens for too short of a time. Your daughter should love playing with a kitten. If a kitten is young enough, it might poop on the floor or rug a few times but will go to a cat box almost instinctively. Cleaning cat box, water, & maybe a place to sleep are no brainers and should be done by your daughter as part of the bargain. You don't have to buy a bunch of scratching posts. One is usually enough unless you have a lot of cats. When my at was young and I would find her scratching on something I didn't want her to scratch on (I'd keep an eye out for it), I'd pick her up, stand her up at the scratching post, take her paws & move them up & down on the scratching post like she would when scratching on it. After a few times of doing that, she used the scratching post exclusively. Yes, I did get the arms of the leather couch scratched when she'd jump up on it, but that's life with a cat. If you start it on dry food, don't give it canned food as a treat. It will put it's nose up at at the dry food and try to only eat the wet food, but some cats will eat both.