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I've put up posters around this neighborhood and the surrounding subdivisions saying we found him, but we haven't gotten any responses yet. I feel sorry for this little guy, but I really can't keep a FOURTH cat. It's hard enough to find places to live that will accept three.

It's been a long time since there's been a kitten in the house, though. Our youngest cat is seven years old now. Even as old as this little one is, he's still so tiny compared to the boys (who are larger than average for housecats due to their Maine Coon heritage), and I'd forgotten how much energy kittens have compared to adult cats.

And how much trouble they can get into... He wants to chew and/or claw EVERYTHING. And our adult cats have learned not to mess with the bird, but the kitten doesn't know that and he tries to pounce on it... almost successfully a couple times, way too close for comfort.

So we really can't keep him even if we wanted to, but if no one comes forward looking for him in the next couple of days we aren't going to have a choice but to place him in a no-kill shelter.