Who here has the most cats?!

kai bengals · Oct 15, 2005

We have 12 adult (permanent) and currently 12 additional kittens. So 24 as of this post.
It has been as high as 32 including kittens. I like the circus, but not that circus! So we are doing what we can to keep the kitten count at a sane level.
We're retiring some of our adults very soon, so our numbers will be dropping.

MoochNNoodles · Oct 15, 2005

Originally Posted by Doc-n-SamsMom

2 kitties

seems kind of lonesomes after reading these........

That's what I was thinking.....

rockinrhonda · Oct 15, 2005

3 cats and 2 dogs

maybe someday i will foster a few rug monkeys i hope

gia_c · Oct 15, 2005

my aunt had around 18 at one point. but im just wondering how many places smell with so many animals, (i read of people in very small places with like 8 cats, and i mean if they are all indoor animals) lol. if anyone has ever left their house for a week or a few days and came back and thought it didnt smell (animal or pee smell or anything else) then great for them! even my friend who has 1 kitten, every now and then there is the 'animal smell', which i dont mind, but i could only imagine anything over 5. we used to have many animals and since we've gotten new carpeting and repainted my mom wont allow any animals inside because of the smell, lol.

zoggy · Oct 15, 2005

Two cats.

Renamed them to Pushkin and Mishka - both boys.
Mishka = bear (clumsy and mischievious

Pushkin = famous Russian poet. Named him because our Pushkin eats with "bowl manners" and is rather polite. Pretty much the opposite of Mishka.

catnapt · Oct 15, 2005

i had one cat for seven years, and she had been all i ever wanted and needed. but she died young (she had been a stray and was approx 2 yrs old when i adopted her) and i was so heartbroken i would not even think of getting another cat for a long time.

i waited SIX YEARS!! and then i adopted my girl Nell, a beautiful tuxedo

two years ago, i adopted a blind deaf diabetic tabby boy Snoopy, but he was only with me for a year, went into renal failure

i miss him so much

at about the same time i took in my sisters 16yr old gray tabby tiger Mickie. she is very demanding, and is also in renal failure, so she needs a lot of care.

i "borrow" my grandkitty Sheldon, a very strange but very lovable boy.

so now i have three cats in the house, two are mine, one is my daughters

i think it makes sense to base how many cats you have not just on the space you have, but also based on the needs of the cat- a sick cat can take up a lot of time, and the others may get jealous if you cannot devote as much time to them

Mickie is demanding and Sheldon is too, only not quite as much,
my pretty Nell is very accomodating so it all works out

but i would not consider getting another cat until Sheldon goes home, and Mickie passes on.

and i would have a very specific kind of cat in mind.

er, excuse me, what was the question??? i seem to have gotten lost in thought
*blush*

snosrap5 · Oct 16, 2005

I have 7 cats.

halfpint · Oct 16, 2005

I have 8, and I love them to bits

lionessrampant · Oct 16, 2005

Originally Posted by Doc-n-SamsMom

2 kitties

seems kind of lonesomes after reading these........

Really? I love having just the two of them. We have a nice little 2.5 room place in the city and we're happy just being the 3 of us. I think adding another cat would be too much for me (and Leo and Lola!) at this point, but I think when I have a house or large condo it will be another story entirely! Of course then, the BF wants to add some canine family members ot the mix...

janine&lily · Oct 16, 2005

only 2 here

( Im not allowed any more then that.I do have a bunny and a guinea pig to tho

cincocatz · Oct 16, 2005

6 cats, 3 dogs and 1 bird

catlover67 · Oct 16, 2005

I have three but one (my oldest) lives with my parents.

I have the other two cats along with two lovebirds and a 5 gal fishtank in a two-bedroom apartment.

I personally would like to own (if I could afford it and had the room)

4 cats (never more than 4)
1 dog
(at least 2 birds)
2 ferrets
1 snake
1 fishtank

sharky · Oct 16, 2005

Right now two cat s ages 17 yrs and 20 months
one dog aka canine sapien
three small fish tanks...

I plan on adding another cat and dog .... bengal and german shepard

If I let the not so stray little kitty( dont fit as this cat is like 15 lanky lbs) has his way I will have three cats very soon

beckiboo · Oct 16, 2005

That is very cool! So many people doing so much for the kitties! You should take a visit there!

Originally Posted by stampit3d

I know of a lady who could top any amount i`ve seen here.
She lives where my Mom lives...is very wealthy and LOVES cats!
I have not met her, but I`ve heard a lot about her form my step sister and have driven by her place.
I understand that she has a few of her own, personal "house kitties", but all the rest are in a big pole barn with a very large outdoor enclosure (So big that the huge old oak tree in the "yard" is not near enough to the barn that the cats can jump to the roof and get away)
I`m told that she has over 200 cats and that the numbers keep growing even tho she tries to find them homes.
Inside they each have their own area with bed, litter box, dishes etc.
She has a quarntee area for new ones till they have had all their vet visits etc...to make sure they are OK to be with other kitties.(She gets lots of "drop offs" from what Im told)
She has other people that she hires to help her with "kitty duties" , which i`m sure must be very time consuming with this many.
Her place looks really nice from the outside and I have every reason to believe that the inside is the same. (I`ve thought about getting her phone # and see if I can visit sometime when I`m up at my Mom`s) I`m told she works with more than 1 area vet to see that everybody gets shots and fixed etc.
She will adopt kitties out...I understand she even has "adoption papers" and if you do not meet her approval you do not get one of her cats! (GOOD FOR HER!)
I love cats...but would not want (nor could I afford) to care for so many....guess she just feels that this is her "life-calling"....and luckily she has the $ for it. I wish there were more people like her!
Just thought you guys might find this story intresting. We all hear about "the crazy cat lady" who hoards cats...but often they are not so cared for as this ladys cats are.

beckiboo · Oct 16, 2005

Originally Posted by gia_c

my aunt had around 18 at one point. but im just wondering how many places smell with so many animals, (i read of people in very small places with like 8 cats, and i mean if they are all indoor animals) lol. if anyone has ever left their house for a week or a few days and came back and thought it didnt smell (animal or pee smell or anything else) then great for them! even my friend who has 1 kitten, every now and then there is the 'animal smell', which i dont mind, but i could only imagine anything over 5. we used to have many animals and since we've gotten new carpeting and repainted my mom wont allow any animals inside because of the smell, lol.

You have my condolences. No pets inside...not my style at all!

If you leave your house for a "week or a few days", someone is going to have to visit and care for the animals, or obviously it will get stinky. I have been in homes with very few cats, that smell awful, due to poor litterbox care and animals messing outside the litterbox, and not being cleaned up! However, I have honestly been in a room with 80 cats, and it had very little smell. It was not stinky. And I have been in many spotless homes with 1-2 pets.

booktigger · Oct 17, 2005

2 permanent cats, 2 lodgers and 2 fosters at the mo. At least one of the fosters will be long term (he is 12, overweight and has struvite crystals!!), I hope the other isn't here long term as she pees standing up, but if she is, then so be it. I would love more than 2 cats, but as I take on oldies, they cost me too much to afford more, and I would love a dog, but I work 9-5 so I don't think it is fair.

KitEKats4Eva! · Oct 17, 2005

I only have two living with me at the moment sob sob sob....

In WA you have to get a license if you want more than three cats - which I would get in a blink if Max would let me...lol!!

We actually have five between us, though - they just don't all live with us. They're the ones in my siggy.

I fully intend to have a Bengal and another shelter kitty before 12 months has passed, though...

dozen2luv · Oct 17, 2005

When I joined here I had 12, therefore the name. But since then 3 of my fosters (no more fosters) stayed after we battled parvo together and last week number 16 joined us. Stewie is brother to our cat Bryan who we had tried to teach his teenager owner responsible pet ownership. I was his step meowmy and helped the kid with shots, getting Stewie neutered and baby sat him. Last week the kid got a new puppy and he threw Stewie out the door. So Stewie came to my house. The young man says it is only temporary but I have a feeling the Stewie isn't leaving. Just so you know you can't tell there are 16 in the house. We had a visitor find 5!

Dozen2Luv

pooky · Oct 17, 2005

I only have one at the moment.

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