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Sakura;2989297 said:I can't imagine having enough time, space, or money to care for more than 4. We have 3 now, but 2 is my limit. With a ton of cats, how do you have people over without cats crawling all over them? How do you keep the cat hair under control? The vet bills? Where do you put all of the litter boxes? Water bowls? If you can make it work, more power to ya'...
When anyone comes over its usually my mom and sister or my cat nut friends who LOVE them. When husbands family came over they stayed put in their room for the most part(large group and they were very loud) But when my sister comes I try to get most of them in the cat room(aka converted to family room garage/sunroom both heated) shes allergic and gets very watery eyes/sneezing.
VACUUM, OFTEN, EVERYTHING!!!! The only place I dont like them is on counter, obviously they get there but I have many spots in house so that they dont seak that out as the best. The sunroom has windows into it and I leave one open so they can go into their room as they please(has a big table in it for them to sunbathe, and most of the litterboxes are in the garage. Only thing that sucks is I was going to lay down a berber rug but we are moving at some point so leaving it be. They have most of the cat tree in those 2 rooms along with a HUGE bowl(salad serving bowl I think) for dry and a few bowls/pots for water(bowls they tend to tip but a few like to move the water then drink so keep those low on water)
vet bills are not to bad. I got slammed by a kitten I hand raised and then she started going downhill fast-liver failure. 2 er trips was BAD. My cats don't get yearlys(stopped that long time ago cause of to many rabies reactions)
But my cats also never suffer. With this many you can't put lots of money into one cat. Like liver shunt kitten(angie) was 3000 to even start to try to fix it. Or the little guy Eric was badly run over(still think he got dumped here) and even the vet didnt want to put him in the repair/ adopt out program as to bad injuries. My seizure cat we tried medicine but it got worse in a day so vet thinks there was a tumor so we euthed her.
Blood work needed it gets done, dentals(so far only one cat but I noticing a few will need them soon) I am usually pretty good far as what feels right/wrong for that cat. umbilical hernias enlarged kidneys and heart murmur(well knew somethign was up didn't want to believe that was it tho!) I knew before the vet trip. Very hands on with them so notice things fast
I always say it might not always be clean(in sense id have to stay up 24/7 to stay on top of every little thing) but its far from a dump, my cats may not eat the best food but they never starve, may not get the best medical but they never suffer if its to much they are let go to not be in pain) May not be perfect but I have seen/heard of far worse.