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>maybe you can ask a couple of friends or family members to drop in and play with him a couple of times a week to help add more interaction on top of the the pet sitter visits?
Unfortunately, most of my family lives out of state, and most of my friends live in adjacent cities (and are all busy people). They also all have pets (mostly cats) of their own, which would put them in the same situation I'm in with my older cat if they were to foster. I have one friend whose wife could *maybe* watch the kitten while I'm gone (either at his house or mine), but it's a real stretch and I'd kind of prefer to hire a professional. I have one relative who lives close by, but he's a boomerus maximus type (e.g. "cats are loners, he'll be fine on his own!") and it'll be hard to get any help out of him.

I guess what I'll try to do now is see if I can find any full-time sitters or fosters--like I said, though, it's unlikely I can get him vaccinated in time to keep him at a boarding facility. Failing that, I guess I'll try to press the shelter again. There's a few other shelters I haven't been able to get a hold of yet, I'll try contacting them again tomorrow. Any other suggestions/advice is appreciated. As an aside, this is probably a stretch, but would it even be possible for the kitten and my cat to get acclimated in the next two weeks? Would that, in tandem with pet sitter visits, be able to provide sufficient socialization? That way the kitten wouldn't be confined to a room and wouldn't be completely lonely all day--but like I said, I'm assuming giving him free rein in the house is a bad idea and that this all-around wouldn't work out.

Also, any general kitten handling advice would be appreciated--I AM keeping him in a separate room (full of toys, scratch posts, food/water/litterbox, etc.) from my other cat, currently, but my mom and I are trying to keep him in our rooms as much as possible. I'm leaving dry food out and trying to feed him wet food 3-4 times a day.