Our local PetSmart does that! We got two cats from one of the cat rescues that way. It wasn't exactly an impulse buy--1.) our house had a legit mouse and then actual rat problem and with small children traps were an issue (also, the rodents were smarter than us), 2.) my son really wanted one--but it was a really convenient convergence of circumstance and wouldn't have happened if my mom hadn't been utterly charmed by Incredibly Charming Solid Black Cat right in front of her that could be conveniently dropped into her arms during her twice weekly trip for dog food.
She still has him; when Child and I moved, she was totally 'you must take the cat of course' but weirdly it was never the right time or the cat had gotten out the back door and up a tree or was in the attic doing Important Mouse Hunting where people didn't fit (how it got up there when you had to deliberately open the hatch and lower a ladder to get there was left unsaid). Three years later, I assume that cat leaves her arms only with death.
That remind me, I need to write up how my mom now has five cats and a dog, but is not, she has said many times, a cat person.
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She still has him; when Child and I moved, she was totally 'you must take the cat of course' but weirdly it was never the right time or the cat had gotten out the back door and up a tree or was in the attic doing Important Mouse Hunting where people didn't fit (how it got up there when you had to deliberately open the hatch and lower a ladder to get there was left unsaid). Three years later, I assume that cat leaves her arms only with death.
That remind me, I need to write up how my mom now has five cats and a dog, but is not, she has said many times, a cat person.