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Permalink Reply by Stephen Goldin on March 5, 2010 at 10:19am

If you think you "own" a cat, you're crazy.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on March 6, 2010 at 9:37am

Heh. Of course.

Permalink Reply by Jo Jerome on March 17, 2010 at 12:32pm

If you think you "own" a cat, you're crazy.

Awesome.

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on March 5, 2010 at 11:31am

No arbitrary number. I've known households with 7 cats. One of these was a small row house. I think the question should be something more like how many cats per square foot do you need to be considered crazy.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on March 6, 2010 at 9:37am

...or a cat shelter.

Permalink Reply by Jo Jerome on March 17, 2010 at 12:33pm

I think the question should be something more like how many cats per square foot do you need to be considered crazy.

In that case, 3 cats in my 140' RV probably qualifies me.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on March 18, 2010 at 2:11am

3 cats in my 140' RV probably qualifies me.

As a kind person who gave them more than a small cage to move around in?

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on March 23, 2010 at 1:57pm

I reckon one cat per room is do-able. The problem is convincing my cohabi-tater.

Permalink Reply by sk8eycat on January 13, 2011 at 4:46pm

Hi.  I'm new here, and even though I am catless at the moment because of financial difficulties (which I'm slowly crawling out from under), I have is a serious answer to the question: You are (anyone is) "officially crazy," the legal term is a "hoarder," if you have more cats than you can afford to take care of, provide veterinary care for, clean up after, or if you call your place a shelter but refuse to spay and neuter or adopt out... any of "your" cats.  And hoarding pets is considered a psychiatric disorder.

 

Sorry to throw cold water on what was intended to be mildly funny, but I've been involved with a little local newspaper that is devoted to pet rescue and welfare for the past 10 years,  and we have run across too many incidents of hoarding in that time.  One woman had over 200 (!!!!) Chihuahuas...all in appalling condition by the time they were rescued and taken away from her.

 

Things like that give me nightmares.

Permalink Reply by Stephan Vladimir Bugaj on January 14, 2011 at 12:02am

I concur with sk8eycat: you are crazy (and cruel) if you "own" more cats than you are capable of taking care of. For some people, that number may very well be one. Cats deserve a decent life, too.