How many

I have three at the moment I will be fostering again soon, so my numbers could change at any time.

Velvet (black domestic shorthair - girl). I've had her since I was a little girl. Velvet is my heart kitty and the reason I am such a big cat lover now! She is the most wonderful, sweet cat I've ever known!!

Isabella (white odd-eyed Turkish Angora- girl)- The rescue I worked with several years ago helped to rescue Isabella from a very bad situation when she was a little kitten.

Kojak (black/white domestic shorthair-boy)- I've had him since he was a few days old. He started out as a spoiled rotten/special needs bottle baby, and now he's grown up to be my best buddy!

I also have a 9 month old blue merle Australian Shepherd, Ranger. He's a little love bug and is currently in training to become a certified therapy dog. Ranger has been such a welcome & wonderful new addition to my life! I can't wait until we're a certified therapy team; I hope he brings as much happiness to other people as he does to me!

My other dog, Macy, I rescued at the end of August. She is basic training at the moment, and really starting to come out of her shell! Macy will live out her life as a pampered house pup since she's special needs (she's about 3 yrs old). She is a sweetie! No clue what she's mixed with but I do have a Wisdom Panel Dog DNA kit to find out since she has some pretty serious health issues! (My entire family is taking bets on what she's mixed with...I'm thinking Black Lab / Shep / Border Collie...but who knows!)

I have 8 and holding. I don't plan on adding anymore but I also said that before this 8th one came on board

Let's see there's....

Lauren - she's a Siamese mix
Shatner - also a Siamese mix
Titus - a BIG FAT FLUFFY orange tabby
Ariel - a tri-color tabby (her marking are mainly black and white tabby but she also has orange tabby markings on one leg)
Salt - a bi-color tabby
Torrie - a torbie
Oliver - a bi-color tabby

I think I got them all..

I have three.

Miagi - 7 year old tabby.
Tiger - 9 year old tabby/bengal mix
Angel - 1 year and a half old Russian Blue mix

I have nine. No breeds (typical coat pattern doesn't determine breed anyways), they were all strays with the exception of Sho who came from my grandmother's cat. Eight of them are DSH and one is a DLH, four girls and five boys.

Just one, and she is all I need

DSH Tortie.

Same here! Sphynx.

I think my answer is a lil obvious.

34 and a fulltime outside cat that has tamed up nicely! And one neurotic dog
My cats are all just dsh/dlh

Four...

Zoey 6
Dahlia 6
Punky 3
Sylvester 2
Alll DSH s
Dog Gabby 3
shih ztu

I have three.

Callie-medium hair tortie girl
Hannah Grace--DSH tabby girl
Tumbleweed--DSH tabby boy

You can read more about them by clicking on the pics by my name.

I have 2 little one's---

Spring, an 11year old bi-color DSH

Sweetpea--A ginger/white DSH

oh, and one slightly off the wall Cockatoo

I have 2!
Google (3) is a DLH Tuxedo 14.4lb evil monster
Joey (10) is a DSH tabby and white and is a ball of pure love!

I have one tortoise shell tabby DMH, Butszie, & I think she would make another's cat's life miserable.

I have 3.

Pandora - is a medium hair something or other... We think she might have siberian in her.

Lilly - is our botail, we think she's an american bobtail.

Hurley - is a domestic shorthair. He's an orange boy.

18 ranging from 1 year to 16/18 years. One DMH with a foofy tail & the rest are DSH.

8 domestic short hair feral rescues. In order of rescue:

Lazlo - 8 yr old gray/white male tabby
Shelly - 8 yr old B&W male
Spooky - 8 yr old tortie-tabby
Tuxedo - 8 yr old b&w male
Flowerbelle - 7 yr old white deaf female with one eye
Ming Loy - 6 yr old black with just a little white female that has cerebellar hypoplasia
Billy - 3 yr old b&w boy that needs to lose weight
Chumley - 3 or 4 yr old classic brown tabby, FIV+

I like having the summary of everyone's kitties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have 8
The oldest - our first, KiKi - all the cuddler cat anyone would ever need, but ...
he needed meow friends, so we agreed to adopt two kittens, Simon & Phoebe, from my husband's niece. KiKi is 6, and Simon & Phoebe are 4.


KiKi is the black short-hair, Phoebe is the Calico, and Simon is the one in the middle

then:
Gray (stray) adopted us, and brought along his "wife", Gigi, with their two kittens, Pippy and Gray, Jr. - Not sure of the adults' ages, but at least Three and 1/2, the kittens were born in the late fall of 2008.





We thought we had all that we could responsibly care for, but Buddy showed up, and was obviously lost - the first time I fed him, he came to me, and rolled over to get his tummy rubbed. He must be the youngest of them all - I thought he was 6 months at the time, but when I took him to the vet, she said he was probably a year and a half because his head was so matured.



Buddy and Gray are special needs.
Gray was diagnosed with FIV, and Buddy was diagnosed with FeLV

i have 9, all former strays. well, #5 was a pregnant tortie i brought home, she had 4 kittens a week later. since i couldn't find furrever homes for the kittens we kept them.

20 indoors now. . .blast it. I totally meant to find homes for the babies while they were young. If I can I might place 2 of them now that they're spayed, but it's not likely. They're too big now, people want little kittens. And I'm too attached to Foxy, she's staying for sure.

A few outside as well. I don't know how many to lay claim to. . .some of the ferals I had TNRed actually live in different neighborhoods and only show up now and then. I'm sure someone else feeds them over there. But there are at least 3 who seem to live in this neighborhood full-time.

Anyway, of the indoor cats, 3 are longhairs, the rest shorthairs. Scotty is the oldest confirmed at 10, Dakota is about the same age, Mooch might the same age or even older, (no telling with strays, but his teeth look old) and the 3 bottle babies are 6 months old. Most are strays that showed up, some are the offspring of those who showed up hugely pregnant, and a few are cats whose owners couldn't keep them.

I have four kitties. And, as far as I'm concerned, that is the perfect number for me.

Cassidy
I adopted Cassie first. She was about 10 months old at the time. I had lost my kitty Henry and knew that I needed another cat in the house. She is my love. And, she's such a pretty girl. She is a ginger and white DLH.

Delaney
Laney came second. I was content with Cassidy, but it was obvious that she needed a companion of her own variety. Delaney is trouble through and through, but she's a sweetie as well. She was 9 months old when I adopted her and is a brown tabby with white DSH.

Emory
I adopted Emory third. I had just wanted another kitty and she was the one. She was 1.5 years old at the time and had had a rough start to life. But, she's a good girl. She is a lovely DSH tortoiseshell.

Finnegan
I didn't go out looking for Finn. He came to me from a situation where he would've been tossed outside. And, for a kitty attacked by something that left him for dead at 2 weeks, but who survived, I couldn't let that happen. And, I couldn't imagine my life without him in it. He just turned a year old (was adopted at 6/7 weeks) and is a ginger and white DLH.

I also have a toy fox terrier who is 5 (Halloween is her birthday!) named Madeline, a 6 year old rat terrier/mix named Mackenzie, a 2 year old cockatiel named Duncan, a little robo hamster named Darby (he's almost a year old, I think) and 2 baby gerbils named Daisy and Delilah. So, yes, I have a full house now . But, I love it!

Not counting kittens who are leaving, we've got 6 (for now). All Ocicats, in various colours.

Demetri - chocolate spotted silver neuter male
Farley - chocolate spotted neuter male
Anastasia - tawny spotted neuter female
Malika - black spotted silver queen
Ashia - chocolate spotted queen
Magic - tawny spotted future queen

We have six RugCats:

The following four are all related:
Whisper (16) - an all-grey girl, Mom to BooBoo and Ms. Pepe
Bootser (16) - a little tuxedo with a very loud mouth!, sister to Whisper
BooBoo (14) - the resident male, a large tuxedo with the coolest eyes and quite the character, he is Whisper's son
Ms. Pepe (14) - sister to BooBoo, she is Whisper's daughter and a gorgeous tortie

Amber Louise (7) - a little orange tabby, she's our phantom-kitty, only really seen by DH and me and a very few close friends. She stays hidden when company comes.

And last, but not least.....
Mollipop (almost 9 months) - a brown tabby who came to live with us at the end of March as a teeny, little kitten, and who now weighs over 8 pounds, she has become quite the Princess and is well on her way to becoming a Queen. (She's her Mama's little girl)

One and a half: Jamie, our 11-year-old Tuxedo, and Miezi, a 10-year-old Silver Tabby we share with our neighbor. Miezi was a stray who chose to rehome herself here, over Jamie's objections. They hate each other and thus she's shared with the neighbor, who really didn't want and couldn't afford another cat after her fur baby died. Jamie is an indoor cat who has an enclosed balcony and goes for a walk in a harness every day; Miezi is indoor-outdoor, and goes between our houses, but always spends the night at the neighbor's.

I now have 2, never thought I would have more than one :P

Rowan the Momma Cat (had a litter a few mos. ago): DSH Tabby w/ White who is a little over a year old.

Jacob the Warlock: Just decided recently (yesterday on Halloween!) to adopt him! Black all over DSH. 5-6mos. old

We have 6 at the moment. Funny, a couple of years ago we were down to 3 and I told DH 'no more cats!' Of course, I brought the next 3 in myself.

Hannah-10 y.o. black DSH
Jack-8 y.o. orange and white tabby
Rufus-6 y.o. gray and white of unknown origin, probably DSH
Katie-4 y.o. gray tabby
Charlotte- 4 y.o. chamagne colored with long hair and the classic tabby M on her forehead, not sure what she is, but she looks like a tiny lion
Bridget- 4 y.o torbie (sister to Charlotte)

I'm so glad to see I'm not alone in the lot's of cats club

I also have 8 plus 2 ferrets
Arlokk is 11 or 12
Aura is 3
Scratchez is 2
Max is 2
Jack is 2
Bear is 2
Gabe is 1
Ezra is 5 months

Lokk was a stray who came in from the rain one day and never left.

Aura and Scratchez came from the same lady who had lots of cats that she fostered so we adopted them since she had such a hard time finding homes.

Max, Jack and Bear were rescued from a being abandoned in a box on a golf course. Their brother found a home but these three babies were apparently destined to lives with me.

Gabe was the kitty in a cage at the shelter that my SO fell in love with. Gabe just adores him.

Ezra is our last addition and was adopted because he had been in the shelter for his whole little life so far and not being the cutest kitten in the world and being a black cat his chances were slim. Every time I came in to visit he would meow his head off till I took him out of the cage and snuggled with him. I feel so bad because his brother is still in that cage even though I have told everyone I know about him because we are at our absolute limit now

We also have Sophie and Rachel the ferrets who are both under 6 months old and are more naughty then 8 cats put together

I have my one and only Autumn and she has all the love and caring I can give her. I know some people who have multiple cats and favors only one. The rest never seem to get enough love and that's just not fair. Some people just never learn.

I have five

Levi, 7 DSH Grey
Jordan, 7 DSH white & brown tabby
Isaac 6, DLH Grey
Maggie 5, DSH white & brown tabby
Jersey 1, DSH Grey tabby with a little white

Not to long from now I will have a 6th cat, he is a long term / hospice foster:
Mo 7 or 8, DSH Black Smoke

You could start something here that probably isn't intended.

Each of our 8 cats get all the attention and lovin' we can give. Especially the cat we have to keep confined because he has been diagnosed with FeLV. He gets 2-3 hours of my devoted time every day, and has a door that he can watch the comings and goings of the active hallway when no one is in his room.


The Gray Family is in the family room where we spend a lot of our time. Even though Gray's "wife" and "children" are still afraid of us, they are gradually warming up to our presence. The thing here is, there was little choice in keeping them - it was either try to find another home and separate them - which would be next to impossible in this economy - try to get them into a no-kill shelter - another impossibility - where they would likely spend most of their lives inside a small cage, or send them to the local kill shelter ... so,

I kinda take issue with your well-intentioned comment that The rest never seem to get enough love and that's just not fair. ... you see - whatever love and attention I CAN give them is better than several alternatives, not to even speak of the difficult lives that ferals have outside and on their own.

This is what I've learned, and this is why we have more than one cat.

I hope you understand that I am just trying to give you another side to your comment - food for thought, perhaps.

I'm glad you and your Autumn are content and happy. You're doing what's best for you.

Be well,
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