New to the site

Hi, I'm new to the site, and was told to come here and introduce myself.  I have 18 cats.  In the house.  Yeah, I know, I'm crazy.  It's not something I decided to do, it just kind of happened.  Well, actually it's 22, if you include the 4 outside.  A few ferals, but mostly strays, range in age from 13 years to 8 months.  I live in a rural area, and people just seem to drop cats around here, they find their way to me, and I end up taking care of them.  All named, all fixed, all loved.  There's Biscuit, LadyGray, Squeaky, Cricket, Marty, Chipper, SamSam, Sweetie Pie, FluffyGray, Oliver, Oscar, Noah (he came just before a big flood in '11), Toby, Polly, Ginger, and the 3 latest Tezzie, CJ, and Mitty.  Outside there's Speckles (13 and still going strong), YellowCat, Auntie, and Clyde.  Polly, CJ and Mitty are polydactyl, as was their mama Mandy, a stray who showed up last January (with daughter Polly), sadly she had a run-in with a car in July before I got her tame enough to bring in.  That's the tribe.  I've had cats for about 40 years, have dealt with just about every behavior issue and illness that you can mention.  And still have questions.  Looking forward to talking with other cat people.  Janet/jmh42

  Welcome!  That is some house full you have, well done you for taking care of so many of our feline friends and offering them a loving home.  I'm sorry you didn't reach Mandy in time to bring her in but you have 3 of her babies so at least she will know they are safe, warm and well fed.   You will find many more cat people here who have houses and properties accommodating multiple cats and colonies so you should fit right in.  I feel terrible having one indoor pampered cat!

I'm looking forward to learning more about your cat family and what they get up to, and reading your contributions: you must have loads of stories and information from that experieince of yours.  Hope you enjoy it here as much as I do. 

M

Hi, welcome to TCS!  It's nice to meet such a good steward of cats.  (I hope I said correctly, it was definitely meant as compliment.)  You have a Speckles, I have a Speck.  

Wow what a houseful.  I thought my dad had a lot at 15 kitties.  I just have 5 at my house, although at one time I did have about 22 cats.

When I took in some kitties at the beginning of this year and ended up with 7, I thought that was just a ridiculous number of cats and I was sure that NOBODY in their right mind has that many cats--until I joined this site and discovered that only do a lot of people have as many cats as I do, many have more!  

What's important is what you said, jmh42, they're "all named, all fixed, all loved."