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This message appeared yesterday on my local Freecycle group:

"i recently took in a stray about a month ago and she seems to be
lonely without her other cat playmates she was used to being around so
i decided to try and find her a cat to bond with and maybe get her out
of her shy stage or atleast keep her company."

Let me know if you'd like the contact e-mail.

He's so cuuuute!! You have to keep him!! :)

We already have five cats in this house. We can't have another cat. We're two over quota as it is.

There's a quota? Hopefully it's something established by the residents not some crazy insurance company or mandate by the financial institution which holds the mortgage.

Indeed, it is established by the residents. Cats should not outnumber people by that much.

Preposterous! The ideal ratio is two cats to every human. It can be stretched for a single person to keep three cats but one needs at least six hundred square feet for such an endeavor.

My sister and her partner have eight. And I have to say that ratio doesn't seem to be working.

The only way I can see that ratio working is on a farm!

Oh, that's just the indoor cats. There are several more in the yard. (Which is where all the indoor cats but one started out.) If there's a kitten that looks like it might be in trouble, they have to save it. They manage somehow, but a couple of the cats need to be kept separate, nearly all of the cats are overweight because they can't control their diets, and my sister-in-law vacuums every day.

I told them to spay the stray cat who was already in the yard when the moved into their house.

I have one. She's all I can manage.

The clearly you do not have enough cats!

It's been a while since I've lived in your area, but West Milford has a no kill shelter... that's the only one I remember.

Boy am I glad to be in Texas. You know someone would try to add another cat to my house.

What a sweetie. But then I'm rather partial to orange cats (and white ones -- see icon).

Pretty kitty! I don't care if he's over quota. Boa Boy says you must keep him!!

(The cats outnumber the people here 3-1. It's not a bad ratio. Seriously.)

1st! Call local shelter - find out if they have a microchip detector thingy. If they don't they could probably give you a name of the closest one that does.

Other avenues of trying to find the parents - Craigslist - Local paper lost/found (lost and found ads are free to post in most papers), and police department.
I use to volunteer at the MCSPCA, they use to keep a list of people calling in saying they found an animal (and are capable of taking care of it for the time being) and if an owner comes looking to give out the contact information.

Don't forget to check the vets in the area. It worked when I lost my dog (about 100 years ago when I was in my early 20s). The people that found him had called the local vets looking to see if anyone had reported a lost afghan hound.