Multicat Households, How many do you have?

You start out thinking Multi-Cat Households are cute - Until, like me, you get home from work one day, to find 7 of your precious babies (the males - who will be having the snip very soon! lol, maybe that'll calm them down) are absolutely drenched, meowing pitifully, and have flooded not only their portion of the house, but the portion of the house with your 14 others (females & the non-intact - I may be busy at work, but I don't want anymore cats and am very, very careful to keep them separate) who are doing their best climbing onto every above ground surface they can find.

Your first concern isn't for the house of course - it's for your babies, who are terrified and potentially have burnt toes or noses, because of course, they'd have to turn the HOT water on now wouldn't they?! Grrr, to top it off, they now need baths, and they are the worst to bath, because one is 5kg, and seriously - he is STRONGER THAN ME! He wins 9/10 when he wants to, although usually he is a calm cat, of course he has to be, he knows he has the power (big strong ginger brat).

So in between getting them sorted, cleaning the house, I have pitiful meowing from the culprits, the girls are looking on in shock as if to say "Why did you do that for?", and my big Buddah boy Jaszper is rotating around my ankles, because that boy has a serious eating problem and of course the flooding hasn't put him off his want of good & attention lol

I adopted him big (2 years old and all fat - I swear, he is probably 6 or 7kg easy) and he always wants food (I only feed my cats dry food, usually optimum as it sits right with the tummies of the ones with the genetic nutritional problems - in fact, that & royal canin SAVED THE LIVES of some of my kittens before we realized the problem. optimum is just easier to find, although not as good as royal canin.) I love my cats but gee they can be brats sometimes.

I'm currently at 4 cats. That may not seem like a lot to some, but considering that we are in a 400 sq foot appartment it's a bit of a tight squeeze. There is a possiblity of having a 5th, but that depends on the state of someone elses financial situation.

We currently have two. One boy and one girl. Both are fixed. They are our babies. They get along fabulously considering they are 5 years apart! I grew up in a two cat household my entire life, so two is a good number for us!

I recently had a pet-sitting gig for a lady who had 8 cats. She had adopted a female from the APL, found out the female was pregnant and kept mom and all 5 kittens, then adopted 2 more a few years later. The funniest thing was that the mom Meh Too (Burmese/Myanmar for "Blackie") was both the tiniest and one of the most ornery of the whole crew.

I also had a friend who decided to foster a female from the Humane Society and found out the female was pregnant. After the kittens were born, the Humane Society kept sending her more orphaned kittens to foster. (She's home during the day and did a lot of bottle-feeding.) At one point she had 14 kittens plus the mom cat; she ended up keeping 8. Sadly, all 8 kittens were FeLV-positive, and 4 of them crossed the Bridge before they turned two.

This summer, I was considering adding a third, but Rocky and Oliver are littermates who've been together since birth. I don't know how well they'd bond with a new arrival.

We have 3 and it seems the perfect number for us.

I have 4 cats, all indoor. Thats plenty for me

i have 3 right now, sabastian i had for 13yrs, nipper for about 1 yr, and Princess my new himmy for about 2 weeks now. as of right now me and BF agreed upon 4, we both agree the next one we will pick out at the animal shelter, but we also agreed we will not be going to the animal shelter for a while, cause once we do, we will def be coming home with something

we have alot of clutter in the house, theres one room completley filled with clutter that id like to clean completly out and turn into the cats room, if we do that then id get a few more...i dont think id go past 7 or 8 tho.

and my BF is absolutely wonderful with the cats, when i 1st met him i only had sabastian and he instantly fell in love with him and spoils him with attention and affection everyday, hes a wonderful father. a few times that sabastian got really sick he paid for a couple huge vet bills and told me not to worry cause he would never let anything happen to his "son". Then we both agreed on taking in Nipper, and we decided on a 3rd cat and what i originally went looking for was an orange tabby, i have always wanted one, but at the one pet store i ran into princess and thought she was beautiful and also she had such a nice disposition, but then i seen the price and kinda forgot about her, a week later i went to a diff pet store, and there she was again! they moved her to another pet store! so i played with her for a bit, and went to visit her for a month straight and told BF he had to see her, well once he seen her it was instant love, he said lets get her, i still told him she was expensive and we should think about it, so we put her on hold for a day, and went back for her within an hour! we always joke and say the we are going to be "married with cats" lol. im very lucky to have found a guy like him who loves cats and animals in general as much as me

I've got ten felines and my personal limit is 5, let me explain

Two desexed cats - Elmo & Sophie (stayers)
One desexed kitten - Bart (may be going to his new home on Sunday)
One entire cat - Flutterby (stayer)
One entire kitten - Fluffy
Five 13 day old kittens - they will be going to new homes when they're old enough

Breeding cats means I can't keep them all but they're still my babies!

We have 6 cats that live with us, 1 that lives at my husbands office, and 10 ferals that live in my husbands warehouse

I have 2 indoor cats-Zippy(female 9yos tabby/white)and Pumpkin(female 5yos orange tabby).I can't imganie having more then 3 cats tops.That's my limit.

I have 3 indoors, 1 indoor-outdoor, 1 outdoor, a couple of ferrals that just come for food and in the hotel I work at I have about 30-40 (some also wonder around in the houses around - it is a greek island)
My hubby wont let me have another , but my boss do not care as long as I take care of them, so when I find a lonley, malnourished, sick cat, after he/she is ok I take them to the hotel I work at, and if is a female I fix her.

I have two girls right now and that's the most I've ever had at any point in my life.

I've three indoor cats. Two boys and a girl.

Well, I had 4 up until recently, then dear little Baby Bonnie came along. So now I have two boys and three girls.

The oldest (Ginger) will be 4 this year, and the youngest is little Bonnie at just about 12 weeks old.

five here too ...

two girls and three boys...

At the beginning of this thread, I had three cats. Now I have five.

I have 6 indoor cats today. Tomorrow I will have 7! I am going to the Shelter tomorrow to pick up a sweet little girl cat named Ace. I don't think I am going to keep the name Ace. I have 1 outdoor cat that adopted us that we care for. He normally doesn't want to come in the house but since the weather has got cold he has been hanging out with us in the house.

Right now I have four...I had five until a couple of months ago, when some friends of mine fell helplessly in love with our male kitty... so he is living with them now.

We have eight in the house right now: Sassy (mine), Stratus (mine), Sophie, Kiara, Bellona, Abby, Newbie (my sister's), and Tanzie (my best friend's sister's).