How many cats do you have?

**mruffruff** · 06-29-2009, 10:27 AM

I have 11. It was 12 until I took one to the shelter to be adopted a couple of months ago. I also have 2 kittens in a cage that I'm fostering. Municiple laws were change after I already had all of them, so I'm grandfathered in and animal control doesn't have a say. No one has ever complained. Even the neighbors don't mind. In fact, they bring food.

Lately they have been staying in "their" room and the cat pen. I hardly know they are here.

**emily_the_spoiled** · 06-29-2009, 01:36 PM

I have 10 (soon to be 11), but I very seldom tell people that because they wouldn't understand. (Someone once told me that I am a "single woman of a certain age, with too many degrees, too much yarn , and too many cats. So I guess I qualify as that "crazy cat lady".) I figure I have a big enough house for everyone, they are well taken care of (I have a good relationship with my vet), and they don't go outside so no one actually knows how many I have

**GILL** · 06-29-2009, 02:10 PM

I can't say. The town has a limit of 3. But no limit on fosters.

**Lizzie** · 06-29-2009, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by emily_the_spoiled

I have 10 (soon to be 11), but I very seldom tell people that because they wouldn't understand. (Someone once told me that I am a "single woman of a certain age, with too many degrees, too much yarn , and too many cats. So I guess I qualify as that "crazy cat lady".) I figure I have a big enough house for everyone, they are well taken care of (I have a good relationship with my vet), and they don't go outside so no one actually knows how many I have

I can relate to that - the "certain age", happily calling myself a "crazy cat lady", and all indoor cats. I very carefully have only fosters in a double bedroom at the front so the neighbors only see those two at the windows. I also have a big enough house that they all have plenty of room, although they (fosters and mine) tend to be in the room I'm in. If one or two of them feel like some personal space, they can always find an empty bedroom where they can sit in the window.

I have my own cats (single digit) and I also have 7 fosters. It was 8 until a week ago when I lost my wonderful Alexander (18) to all the usual old-age ailments. It's strange how a home will feel emptier than it should when just one cat has gone even when you've known him for barely 2 years.

Another foster, Catullus, will be going out for adoption soon, and Challenge may be going to the social-feral area of the shelter for some extra socialization. My household is in constant flux. I've just volunteered to take on another foster that I saw at one of the shelter's adoption centers who the staff said no-one could touch. I don't know what they were thinking to put him straight out for adoption; I guess they were very busy and he's young and Siamese. He smells bad, and his coat looks clumpy, as though he isn't taking care of himself.

**Vermontcat** · 06-29-2009, 10:05 PM

After 20 years with only a single cat who liked it that way, I now have two cats.
Two seems to be the magic number for a lot of Pet Talkers it seems.

**smokey the elder** · 06-30-2009, 08:08 AM

I have 6 of my own and variable numbers of fosters.

**Pinot's Mom** · 06-30-2009, 08:40 AM

We are owned by one kitty - as some of you know, Pinot would probably endanger another kitty with the viral disease she seems to be a carrier of. We started out for two, but one's just fine! We've actually been a one kitty household for almost all of our 28 years together.

**catlover4ever** · 06-30-2009, 08:48 AM

I will admit to anyone who asks that I have 7 kitties.

**Prairie Purrs** · 06-30-2009, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by emily_the_spoiled

(Someone once told me that I am a "single woman of a certain age, with too many degrees, too much yarn , and too many cats. So I guess I qualify as that "crazy cat lady".)

Substitute "too many books" for "too much yarn" and I'm right there with you!

**emily_the_spoiled** · 06-30-2009, 10:32 AM

Hey at least this way I do not have to explain how much I spend on yarn to anyone else but myself

(It makes it alot easier to justify buying some of the stuff!)

**Catlady711** · 06-30-2009, 06:57 PM

5 were planned editions to the house, the last 3 (littermates) were supposed to be fosters

, but are part of the family now.

Until my Dusty passed away in 2007 I did have a total of 8 in the house though.

To be honest 4-5 is a better number for me, but we manage with all 7.

**catnapper** · 06-30-2009, 07:28 PM

I forgot to answer my own poll!

I have 5 cats, with 3 fosters. I've got a new determination to see my two babies find homes.... As much as I adore these kittens, I know they need to find their own homes. My coworkers were telling me this afternoon how out of control 5 cats are. I beg to differ on that one - 5 cats are perfectly sane and easy to care for.

But I fear I'd be leaping into cat-crazy-lady territory with 7.... once I hit that number, I seriously think I wouldn't care anymore just how many cats reside here. It'll always be "What's one more?"

My coworker said the news cameras would come and drag out 30 cats and I'd be yelling "But the litterboxes are all clean!" And he's RIGHT.