ethical dilemma

I found a stray cat this morning. Sweet, sweet, sweet. He's a young orange tabby who begged to be picked up and then walked around on my shoulders rubbing and purring like mad. He has a collar but no tags. He seemed at ease where he was, if very happy to see me. So was it right to take him inside? Well, I have to say yes, but it was surprisingly hard to decide.

He was not pleased to see the other cats, but I have him set up in the spare room with his own food, water, and litterbox. I have learned that the Seattle Times is bad; they charge $8 a line for found animal ads, which ought to be free. Animal Control will put the information on their web site and phone recording for free, though. I haven't figured out yet where to take the little guy that they could scan him for microchips.

This continues week 2 of "Kylee takes care of animals that aren't hers" -- last week Chairman Kaga stayed over, this past weekend I looked in on a friend's cats, and now this. I suppose it would be worse if I didn't like them so much.

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Wow, people are pretty well informed about cat microchips. Thanks. I'm going to take the little mip to Animal Talk Rescue for a scan later this afternoon (possibly when I am a big sap and go home to check on him during lunch). I didn't feel any chip, but they'll do it free. They didn't say whether they could find the owner from an ID, but I guess I'll find out.