Well, I only have 4 cats of my own, plus fosters (right now I only have Minette who HATES other cats, so she is living quite happily alone in my daughter's room until she can find the perfect forever home.) I also have a rather large dog named Nicki. I live with my husband and three teens. One of which is heading to college next year (talk about expense!). Everyone - and I mean everyone, including my accountant - tells me the animals are too much financial responsibilty. I tell them that the cats are MUCH cheaper than pshycho therapy and drugs.

At first my husband was leery of going from 2 cats to fostering beause he knew one or two fosters would never leave ( and he was right) but its funny how HE'S now the one who wants to keep all the fosters. Just today he's asking how we could go about introducing Minette to the other cats. He'd keep them all if we could. I guess the point of this rambling is to have those nay-sayers visit you more often. Have them spend time with the cats and see that the financial responsiblity isn't THAT great, but the rewards of it are worth a million bucks. Have them see there isn't any messes created from the animals. Have them see you're more responsible and happier because of the cats. Some will come around, toerhs never will. Those that never will see it your way, just ignore them when they start ranting on you.