A moral type of question

If you were in my position what would you do?

My husband found a kitten this morning. At first i thought he was just a stray kitten cuz he had fleas soo bad that his gums were pale and he was alittle on the skinny side. The only thing he is a very tame lap kitty so I am thinking that he isn't a stray but has owners. But with the fleas how bad they were show he has had them for a real long time. when i gave him a regular bath the water had a bunch of live fleas that came off him and you could see the blood. so i took him in and got him advantage and all and it took me like three hours to comb and pick all the fleas off him. So I don't know if I should try to find his owners or just keep him cuz i really dont want to put him back in that situation cuz it is a clear to me that they don't really care about his health if they let the fleas get that bad. But I also know how i would feel if it was the other way around and someone had my Kallie. any advice would be helpful on making up my mind.

Your Kallie would never have fleas like that..I personally would see if the kitten has a microchip, and if he doesn't I would keep him.

Good luck with your decision!

Sounds like it's lost. Maybe his original home is far from your place. I'd try to find the owners before thinking of keeping him.

I think with fleas so bad, he must be a stray, because even if the owners don't care surely they wouldn't want all these fleas in their house, after all humans can get them too. And yeah, if he ISN'T a stray, people who let a kitten get into such bad condition shouldn't be allowed to keep it!! A couple of fleas can be explained. But so many, and so bad?

Maybe the kittens owners have been trying to find him without much luck?

When we found JD I posted a few signs around and decided that if no one called for him by the end of the week I would keep him... but unfortunately for us his owner called...

If in fact his owners aren't looking for him or abandoned him then you most definetely should keep him! lol- honestly with JD I didn't try that hard to find his owner- but at least I can say I tried!

How old is the kitten? In my case, I decided that in the two months Zissou had been alive when found outside, there is no way that she had ever had a responsible owner as she had fleas, worms, mites, dehydrated, skinny, and pretty scared of people. If she had gotten lost or something, I can see having fleas or being dehydrated.

If your kitten is old enough that somebody may have loved it and is missing it, but it has been lost for a few weeks to get in bad shape, try and find the owner.

I found a stray once who looked horribly sick and not like a pet. I took him to the shelter. A few days later there was an ad in the paper about a missing cat who had cancer and needed his medicine. Of course I called. I don't know what happened though she never called back.