How many cats/dogs have you had in your life?

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how many cats or dogs have you had in your lifetime so far?when I was growing up, we always had dogs, just one til she had puppies, and we kept one, so as I grew up it was her and her son, then she had more puppies, and we gave all of them away There was a stray cat that I fed, but it didn't stay around long I got a cat when I was 20, Lucy, but she disappearred a couple years later, she just never came home now 20 years later here I am with 5 cats!! I never had any pets for all those years, hard for me to believe now!