Multicat Households, How many do you have?

Wow, Katiemae1277, 14! All FeLV positive? And all by yourself?

I applaud and respect you for what you're doing for those cats. That's really awesome.

My current 8 is the most that I've ever had, and we do quite well. But, I have to keep reminding myself that I honestly couldn't care for any more than that. Such as, when I drop off donations at the shelter, I have this incredible urge to take home at least one of the "lobby cats" every time

I have three and that's my limit for now because of space issues. I would love to have more but until I move into a larger place that's not possible.

I only have 3 and am waiting on 2 more, I think my limit is 8-10.

Originally Posted by katiemae1277

As far as anyone wanting to get to know and/or marry me cause of my cats

on them if they don't! they're not the kind of person I'd want to get to know and marry

Besides, my cats make me a lot happier than any guy has ever been able to, and if that makes me the crazy cat lady, then coo coo kachoo! I am the cat lady!!!

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Ahhhh so I'm not the only one that thinks that way!!??!! WOOOHOOO!!! I'm not alone!!!! I just got done giving a guy the boot because he was making comments about my dogs you just don't want to go there with me if you want to hang around me, I'll get rid of you quick!!!
cheers to the cat lady from the dog lady

Just 3...

would i like more? sure.probably, but ragdolls are pricey & so is the fixing part lol so i doubt i will get anymore.

Originally Posted by Autumnblueangel

Hi All,

People call me the "Crazy Cat Lady", I call myself the "Psychotic Cat Lady", lol. I'm a Professional 24 y.o in Australia, and I have 21 cats currently living with me, 1 (my eldest) living with my mom & 2 beloved angel kitties that I lost in the last 2 years due to health issues I couldn't prevent or foresee.

I'm curious to know, if I'm the only one to have this many? I know that a lot of you on these forums have many cats, but people gawp at me when I tell them how many I have. It wasn't planned, half of them are of the same family line, but I'm interested to know if anyone is in the same boat as me lol

I don't think I'd have it any other way, although it's stressful, costly, and exhausting at times, I love them to bits.

Anyone else care to share?

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You do not state whether you are married. I am going to assume no. But that certainly does not make you a crazy old cat lady. If I was not married and if I were a woman, I would probably be doing exactly what you are doing. Congratulations to you! The love of cats can be so habit forming and I fully understand your love for them.

My cats get along great. It's so adorable seeing the interaction between them, and not only are they not all related, but some were adopted as adults, and have integrated perfectly.

In 2004 (not counting my eldest who lives with my mom - 2002), I got my eldest living with me, she was dumped in my yard at 5 weeks. Beautiful fluff ball. She went on to have 3 kittens, one of whom my heart breaks every day because I was forced into a situation where I could only keep 2, because I didn't have the cash it'd take to take all the kittens home to my home state, but I did find her a good home. I kept 2 of my eldest cats, kittens, and one went walkabout, and so I had my eldest & her son still.

I then rescued 2 female kittens. It was a 120F day, and I had seen some kittens hanging around with their mom near my house late at night. I kept feeding them because the poor darlings were starving. One day I thought screw this, and I knocked on the peoples door, and asked if I could take the babies, they said I could take one but they wanted the girl, so I grabbed her up but as I walking down the path, I saw this emaciated kitten laying on the boiling hot concrete. sprawled out and barely conscious and as a last thought, grabbed her too.

The kittens were flea ridden, they were 3 months but weighed about 2lb each. You could see the bones. I have photographs of them then, and they were horrible, one was near death, the one on the hot concrete.

Well, the one on hot concrete then went on to have 4 babies, all of whom are one of a kind absolutely beautiful looking cats and I couldn't part with them. So I ended up having 8, the mother son, aunt mother & babies. a friend soon wanted me to take on her cat skittles, so I ended up with 9.

I soon moved interstate, and soon after Skittles died of what we assumed was possibly a blood cancer. Taking me down to 8, I then adopted a 9 month old, a 1 year old and a 2 year old from the local vet - and I adore them, they are BEAUTIFUL and they actually mother the little ones - licking them, cuddling them, protecting them.

So I ended up having 11, but then I got the "I want a baby" syndrome lol and adopted 2, 8 week olds from a local pet shop after falling in love with them, and was content with my lot.

But, fate is cruel at times lol, because 2 weeks after satiating my "I want a baby" syndrome lol.... one of the "4"... she had 7!!! I didn't even realize she was pregnant, came home one day and started counting....

Unfortunately, the 2 girls I rescued came with a hidden surprise.... one is a cat flu carrier and the other gets it at random. She passed this on to 2 of her babies, and 2 became carriers and unfortunately one of the carriers was the mother of the 7, which means, that I lost 1 of them because of it and the other 6 are chronic, very small cats, huge nutritional problems, and I nearly lost 2 more of them, but I've fought for them.

I then ended up getting 2 more dumped on me, because whilst at the vet with one of my other cats (of the 4) when she miscarried 3 babies (and I tried to save the 3rd, even going as far to try and get a surrogate mommy for him as her mommy wasn't paying attention to him) and the vet refused to take the 2 kittens, and I knew what would happen, they'd have been dumped, and they were beautiful long haired cats, so I said I'd find them homes, which never eventuated . Unfortunately, one of these had obviously been abused, because I have to now handle a cat with ADD & Autistic like tenancies

So my 2 original are mother & son (2), then I have a great aunt/grandma/aunts/uncles/mother&kittens (12), a sibling group (2), another sibling group (2), and (3) that I adopted as older cats, equaling 21. They do cost a lot, in time and money, but they're worth it.

As for potential partners? Hahaha, I've always been able to stooge them into helping me. My ex Husband used to do the entire lot lol.

i just have the two because i live in a flat and am only meant to have one, when we can finally et our own house ill have more i think

I just have two of my own cats, I deliberately keep my numbers low due to fostering, I never know when a foster is going to end up being long term or need things that the rescue can't always afford, so I pay. AT the mment I have 4 fosters, so I have a houseful of oldies, 3 of which have health issues (2 are also disabled), one has behavioural issues - so far, she is the only one that can be rehomed, although I am hoping one of the ones with health issues can be rehomed. My personal limit is 5, but I am often at 6, I have a problem with saying the word no!! i am good at rehoming though, I have only kept 3 out of 70 fosters, one of which wasn't my choice, and 3, possibly 4 living thier life out here due to health issues.

I dont particularly care about settling down with a bloke, part of me is happy not to, I dont have to answer to anyone then, or be restricted as to waht I take in. Sometimes it would be nice to have some support when going through healht issues, but then I might end up having to argue if I want to let go and they dont.

I have 5 cats now. 4 Siamese and 1 Persian.And 1 Golden Retriever. I like having a a multiple cat family. They all get along great.

I have 5 that live with me, a feral colony of about 14 and my babies at the shelter that I am socialising of which I usually have about 5 that I am working with and another 40 or so friendly ones to hug when socialising is getting me down.

I have thought so many times about adding a sixth, there is a brown tabby now I would love to take home but I really dont want to stress my other cats out and they are happy together at the moment which in a multicat household is a plus

I brought 2 three-week old kittens home from a construction site near work - mommy had been killed. We had them, Molly and Halsey, for a year when our neighbors adopted and abandoned a kitten. (They got bored with her at 12 weeks!) Her name is Gracie.

Then Chester and Teresa's very feral mother dropped them in our back yard and they, too came inside. (I was willing to have them be our "outside cats" but my husband's nixed that idea.) Animal control picked up their mother. She was euthanized before I found out what had happened. She's the reason I do cat rescue and TNR now.

Then the same neighbors adopted another cat and abandoned her - at least she was 7 months old. Her name is Josephine. Those neighbors moved, thank goodness.

So, Molly and Halsey are three, Gracie, Chester and Teresa are two and Josephine is one and a half.

I foster for a no-kill shelter, so right now we have four kittens from two litters residing on our sun porch. Maggie is nine weeks and is practically living inside our house. Our cats all love her - even the tortie Teresa, who hates everbody!

The other three are five week old brothers - Gus, George and Gene. My cats are usually right at the porch door, trying to figure out whose out there. But with this last foster litter, I guess they got used to the idea because no one's even bothered to look.

In our city we can only have 5 cats and 3 dogs. If I had my choice I would have 5 cats, but my husband would divorce me. He always said if I were single I would be the crazy cat lady everyone talked about. lol

In our suburbs some of them have strange rules for how many pets you can have. Like in one you can only have 3 animals total (between dogs and cats) over the age of 3 months. There are quite a few of them that state that residents can have up to two dogs and one cat or up to two cats and one dog for a total of three (residents cannot have 3 animals of the same species) or residents can have up to two cats and up to two dogs for a total of 4 animals (residents cannot have more than two animals of one species). I have NO idea why they would have such a rule, and it seems silly to me, but I don't come up with them. LOL

I have 3 grown females in the house as well as 3 maybe female kittens. (unsure of sex just yet) as well as 11 not so feral ferals living in the cat barn behind the house. It is basically a cat's house. So I own 17 in total

My cat has an identity crisis, living as the only kitty with several dogs.

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Need I say more

This was actually a few years ago when I was fostering. I know only have 3 indoor and 3 outdoor strays that I feed.