Advise on what to do with a found kitten?

Hi all, just wanted to get some opinions while I do what I can to help this poor little girl.

Last night on our way home from her grandma's, my girlfriend and I almost hit a little black kitten in the middle of a busy road near her house. I stopped in time, but she just froze in the street and wouldn't move; when I got out to shoo her away, she ran right to me and started rubbing and circling. Well of course we couldn't just leave her there when she obviously had no idea how to deal with cars or roads or anything, so we took her back to my house and set her up in my room away from my two cats.

I can't decide whether this kitten is feral or lost... I've yet to see her use the litterbox so she slept in one of my cat carriers last night. She's obviously very social, but she's also quite skinny and has a few fleas and possibly some parasite bloat to her belly. The area where we found her is residential but also has a few undeveloped lots along the main road where a mama feral might have been raising kittens with help from animal loving neighbors...

Our plan is to see if she's microchipped, put up some posters where we found her, etc. I don't really know what else to do... The shelters around here have a pretty high kill rate so we want to keep this baby with us if at all possible until we can find her owner or a new home. Any further advise would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Check your newspaper for any lost cat ads. You might also want to place a found article yourself. Ask around and see if anyone has lost a kitten.
Hope this helps,
Eileen

If she has no idea about the traffic, so she cant be feral. If feral without ideas = a dead cat.... The only ferales / semiferales who do survive any longer time are the smart ones.

So there are only two possiblilites: a lost stray = do advertise etc.
OR dumped. Advertise anyway, but prepare also to find her a new home.


Tx a lot for helping this little sis of ours!

Good luck!

Thanks guys. We still haven't heard from the shelters or gotten any response to our search in the neighborhood where we found her, so we've officially called her abandoned (though how anyone could abandon such a sweetie as her is quite beyond me.) She went home with her new mommy today, the girlfriend of a close family friend who had been planning on looking for a shelter kitten to adopt this weekend anyway! So we cut out the middleman and are now quite confident that this still-unnamed bundle of joy will be well taken care of and even get occasional visits from us!

Originally Posted by GoodCat

Thanks guys. We still haven't heard from the shelters or gotten any response to our search in the neighborhood where we found her, so we've officially called her abandoned (though how anyone could abandon such a sweetie as her is quite beyond me.) She went home with her new mommy today, the girlfriend of a close family friend who had been planning on looking for a shelter kitten to adopt this weekend anyway! So we cut out the middleman and are now quite confident that this still-unnamed bundle of joy will be well taken care of and even get occasional visits from us!

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HOORAY!!!! What a happy ending....some little kitty sure has a good Guardian Angel (aka GoodCat)