That is mostly going to be up to the animal. If it chooses to stay, it has adopted you. Strays go where they want.
The best place to adopt a homeless or stray pet is at a nearby animal shelter. Animal shelters contain a variety of pets that you can shelter under your roof.
I want to adopt that stray cat. Please don't stray from the group.
You buy it or you adopt it or you get it as a present or if its a stray!
Randomly an animal may wander onto your farm. You have the option of posting the animal on your wall. Your friends can then adopt the animal. You cannot adopt the animal that you found.In order for you to adopt an animal. One of your friends has to "find" an animal on their farm and post it. It will come up on your home page with a link to adopt the animal.If you want an animal other people won't get before you, make another facebook account. Go on to Farmville on that account and leave it for 10-20 minutes. A box will appear saying either someone needs help on their farm or an animal needs adopting. If the animal box appears, click help the animal and post it on the wall. If the other box appears, close it.Go on to the account you want the animal on, and adopt it. Do this as many times as you like for unlimited animals!You can only adopt an animal if you have friends playing Farmville. If they publish to your news feed that they found an animal on their farm and it needs a home, this is your chance to adopt it. Below that post, you will see a link saying 'Adopt', or something similar. Click this, and it will take you to your farm. There, you can adopt your animal and keep it.
You have to befriend the cat/dog, carry it into your house, and then when you click on them the option "Adopt a Stray" pops up. It sounds silly but hey, that's Sims for ya!
Adopt it, ask your parents for advice, put the cat and kits in Animal shelter, think of friends who would want a cat and kits!
have your sims wait for a pet to show up on the lot and then build up relationship really well with the stray pet. After a while there will be an option to adopt the stray.
If you found it on your farm, you cannot keep it. You can either publish it to let your friends adopt it or hit the 'Ignore' button. If a friend published it and you want to adopt it, just click on the ''Adopt the ___!". If no one already adopted it, you will move to a page that says the animal is now in your gift box.
A stray animal.
A stray animal is any animal which normally found in a certain place has been moved or moved itself to a different place. (Usually a stray animal is one that is not wanted in the new place in which it has now been found.)
Anyone Can adopt an animal Unless you have allergies to them or you have something leagaly wrong so you can like abusing animals but mostly everyone can adopt and animal :)!
It is generally not recommended to pet stray cats as they may carry diseases or behave unpredictably. It is best to contact animal control or a local animal shelter for assistance with stray cats.