New here :) Hello

I just learned of this site from the dog forum lol so thought I would check it out.

My name is Brandy.  I currently have 3 kittens.  Storm will be 1 year old in Sept, Willow is 5.5 months old and Lily is 12 weeks old.  Willow and Lily we got from the same family that let's their cats have litter after litter.

We had one of their tom's for a while too but he went missing a few months ago.  In the past we have had other cats, a senior we adopted, a pregnant one and her kittens we fostered, a few that went missing (1 we are sure was stolen, as many cats went missing in the neighborhood we used to live in, in a short time and then the "crazy cat lady" from around the corner suddenly moved away with like 30 of them, we and most of the owners of the missing cats think she took them) another went missing when we moved here, bolted from the house the day we arrived and we never found him.  Lastly one I had to rehome last summer when I got too ill to keep up with her medical needs etc. 

So yeah over the years we have always had cats with us.  The town limit is 3 per household unless you pay for a breeders license, and since I will never breed them and feel 3 is plenty (especially with all the other pets we have), we are at our kitty limit.

Along with the 3 kittens, we have 2 pups, 2 tortoises, 2 hamsters, 2 hermit crabs, 1 corn snake, 1 gartar snake, 1 guinea pig, 1 betta fish, 1 salamander, 1 bunny and 1 hedgehog.  So a mini zoo and we love every minute of it.

We got very lucky that our cats and dogs have tolerated/enjoyed each other right from day one.  Storm prefers the dogs don't bug him, but he puts up with them, he plays with the other 2 kittens.  Lily the littlest and one of my pups share a birthday and those 2 are like best buddies.  Willow alternates how she feels about the other cats and the pups depending on the day, she loves to play with Lily, and cuddle with Storm and about 50% of the time she enjoys playing with the pups too.

I look forward to perusing the boards and learning even more about the best way to be caring for my sweeties.

Welcome to TCS.  You will find lots of valuable information and advice here.  Sounds like you have your hands full!

I always have my hands full But I love it.  My folks laugh that I like to do things in bulk, 1 cat is good so let's have 3, 1 kid is good so lets have 4, 1 dog is good so lets have 2 etc

Hello and welcome, can I ask a question? You say that you have a town limit of 3 cats and then you have to pay a breeders fee, do you live in The USA and is this a common thing in America? Here in the UK there is no limit to the number of cats we can have.

It is pretty common where I am.  I do not know the reasoning - perhaps to prevent animal hoarding or backyard breeding.  It usually doesn't help, though.

One town over has a two pet limit.  Dogs, cats, mice, guinea pigs - doesn't matter - you are limited to two pets.  Yet this same town could not pass a spay/neuter ordinance because someone complained about their "rights" being violated.

I am in Alberta Canada.  It is common to have the limit of 3, it is not common to have a way to own more (the breeders license).  It is in effort to curb unwanted pets from unethical breeding and to prevent animal hoarding/neglect.  While some of us can handle lots of pets and take very good care of them, there is many that can not provide enough food, shelter, love, vet care etc if they have more than 1-3.  There is not a grand total limit, so really I could have 35 pets in this house without a problem as long as I only have 3 cats and 3 dogs and take proper care of them all (well and don't have illegal exotics).  I feel 3 is a good limit.  I mean really just with the 3 cats and 2 dogs I have a lot to deal with, meals are "interesting" since they like to be all over my feet waiting for it.  But I don't think I could give proper care to them and maintain a sanitary house for my kids if I went much beyond them.  ALready I have to scoop both litter boxes twice a day and scoop the rabbit cage daily to keep any nasty smells away.  Miss a time slot and the house does not smell nice at all.  I am not okay with that.