How many cats have you owned?

This will be interesting....I wonder who has owned the most. Lets see!

I have owned 12 that I can remember...

Boomer
Nuby
Simba
Lucky
Kitten 1
Kitten 2
Kitten 3
Gizmo
Luna
Rocky
Jasmane
Blue
Angel
Baby


How many have you owned? (you don't have to name them all)

Hmmm - if we're talking about me and only me, then maybe 15 counting the current ones. If we're talking about my family, then too many!!! hehehe...we've never NOT had cats in my home, at one stage, my eldest sister was a pioneer Persian breeder here in the early '80's and at the time, we had around 20 pedigrees and around 6 domestics....On average, we had at least 4 cats during my growing up years!

My husband and I have only own our 2 cats: Monkey and Lemur

But when I was growing up we owned quite a few ...I will try to list them all:

Tigger
Vash
Baby girl
Derni
Shannara
Chelsea
Rise
Camber
Tanari
Laryaties (spelling)

Harley is my only cat I've ever owned, or shall I say, thats owned me?

I can truly say I have never owned a cat.....they own me!

I probably have the record at the moment. I have five indoor/outdoor kitties: Peter, Snow, Angel, Leia, and Comet (all fixed).

But the ferals that I look out for had three litters this Spring. (Yes, I know that they need to be fixed, but I only have so much money and I had three fixed in February. I have had unforseen expenses due to storms in April. The rest of the ferals will be s/n as soon as I have the money.) So, let's see there are about fifteen ferals all together now.

That makes my grand total of 20 at the moment; if you count the feral colony.

Growing up, I was more of a dog person and we lived on a farm, so most of the cats were feral barn cats. I only had two real pet cats, Mama and Oreo. I did have a pet pig named Piglet, though. He loved Oreo cookies.

While growing up my family had 2 cats, Tommy and Mittens (both tuxedos.)

As an adult I have had 5 cats.
1. Inky: male, black, dsh. RB
2. Shadow: female, black, dlh. RB
3. Cleophus (Cleo) male, silver tabby, dsh. RB
4. Felicia: female, torbie, dsh.
5. Beau: male, sable Burmese.

Kanarus -Seal Point Tranditional Siamese (RB The cat that raised me )
Boo -Blue eyed, black moggie (RB)
Crazy Charlie -Maine Coon (RB)
B.C. -DSH Tuxie (RB)

Spaz -NFC Tortie
Shadow -DSH mackerel tabby
Vash -DSH Tuxie
Trouble -DSH Cow kitty
Cassi -Seal point moggie
Ivory -Barking Enigma Cat


Various un-named but much loved barncats in the past

Since I was little here is the list:

Lenny - brother of J.P - grey tabby
J.P - brother of Lenny - black
Percy - PTS because of crystals in kidney (sweetest cat EVER) (long haired tuxedo)
Oliver - crazy claw demon from a barn (black)
Spike - so cute, but kinda pervy (grey tabby)
Evey - Mommy to Zoe, I watched her give birth (black)
Zoe - Daughter of Evey, I watched her be born (tuxedo)
Trout - Our sweet baby that we currently have...(Tortie)

Red
Doo Doo
Hester
Kitty
Mikey
Shatazar
Little Bit
Bubba
Mort
Stanley
Ollie
Tommy
Dion
Frankie
George
Bast
Smokie

I hope I didn't forget somebody... Thats 17

My mom took in feral kitties when I was young, helped them get healthy and then gave them away to good homes. I would guess that in my lifetime I have been owned by 30+ kitties, even if for a short time.

Well, growing up we had TONS of cats. I got a kitten when I was born, Maggie. She was inside, and I had her till I was 17, she had to be put to sleep for several medical reasons... I didn't talk to my mother for like 3 months. At one point my mom found 4 kittens in a box under a truck tire at her work, who ever put them there wanted them dead. So she brought them home.

Please keep in mind when reading this, that my mom was a very young single mother of 3 little girls, working 2 jobs just to pay the rent. We didn't get "state assistance" because she was too proud. But the church was always sending over food and gifts for us at holidays and monthly. Although Maggie had vet care, we couldnt' afford it for the others. We took in the kittens until they were big enough to go outside. There was already stray/outdoor cats in our neighborhood that made out ok, so we kept a "dog house" for the kitties with blankets made sure to feed/water them daily.

As you can imagine there were more & more kitties...anyone that has never seen this might not really understand how fast it happens...at max we had 50 kitties in this colony. As a little girl it was great! I was in my glory everyday playing with all the kitties, now as an adult, I realize how dangerous it was for the cats, for the babies (whom we moved indoors when one became close to having birth), even for us.

Then I got a bunny rabbit when I was 16. She was indoors and litter trained. But when I moved in with my dad I couldn't keep her inside on account of our large pomeranian who really wanted to play with her & shake her up. So she got a bunny condo. After high school I couldn't really play with her like I used to so I gave her to my cousin who is mentally challenged who had all the time in the world for her. I brought home the cutest little blond 1lb Pom one day to my dad's, who swore I was gonna have to eat the dog, cause he wasn't having anymore dogs. And when I decided to move in with my now-husband, my dad's response was: "your not gonna take him with you?!?! you can't! this is his HOME! You can't take him from his HOME!" Yeah, real tough. So Max still lives with my dad. (and thank God, cause he's highly diabetic, has thyroid problems, takes like 5 different meds a day & gets insulin injections 2xp day, I could never afford this & they can, besides he's SO spoiled now, won't even go out in the rain he needs an umbrella)

Since then I've been petless...unless you count our aquatic turtle Mary-Kate (formerly of the Olsen twins...Ashely passed). And then we found LuckyGirl. She's a tuxedo kitten (~8mos) with a bunny tail (from a birth defect). She was semi-feral..living on a hotel resort and starving. She's had shots & bloodwork (she is + for Bartonella/CSD & on meds) and we plan on getting her spayed as soon as we can afford it (next month). We took her in, and we've been in love ever since.

Childhood Family Cats

Clancy
Tanya
Mindy
Rusty
Toby
Sasha

Current

Max
Shamus

Untill recently it was only 2 but here goes,

Family cats:
Cookie (named after cookie monster) R.I.P.
Smokey R.I.P

Currently:
Levi
Jordan
Isaac
Maggie

OK, these might not count, because they were shelter kitties, but
Cat's I've loved like they were mine:
Posh
Ginger
Johny
Seth
Savana
Clancey (R.I.P.)
Duce
Ditto
Raven
Diesel (Isaac's Dad)
Maxwell
Critter (R.I.P. )
Thunder
Thistle
Peaches (Maggie's Mom)
And probably many more I just cant think of names off the top of my head.

Hmm let me see if I remember them all:

Past cats:
Thumper
Redcat
Paw
Meow
Zeebo
Wuzzy
Spot

Current:
Cupid
Mew Mew
Merlyn

and 2 bengal boys on the way

I only remember 4 of our childhood cats, although my mum had others when I was around 2. The ones I remember are:

Felix
Beauty
Tinkerbell
Gizmo (her ears were larger than her head when we got her as a kitten).

Since living on my own (my housemate did have 2 cats when I moved in though), I have had 6 cats:

Charlie
Tigger
Ginger
Snowy
PEbbles
Blackie

And I have fostered 15 cats and 5 kittens as well, wont name all those.

Zissou

My dad lied and told me my mom was allergic to cats and dogs, so I was never allowed to have a pet. What's the first thing I do when I have my own apartment? That's right, find a feral baby kitten. I wish I'd had more, but I will!

Fred
Mr. Kitty (Fred's twin brother)
Panther
Jack
Webb
Lulu
Max
Miss Bettie
Georgia
Leo
Currently I have Pearl, Pepper, Fluffy and Scooter.