apparently adopting three cats in the span of three months has given me a reputation bc two different friends/neighbors have been like "hey, the SPCA recently got massive cat intake loads from two different properties and they're desperately seeking adopters thought you might want to know"

three has turned out to be the perfect balance, i'm not risking this equilibrium!!

It's okay to be at catpacity

i am simply out of closets for litterboxes

(rip to my initial plans to have all the litterboxes in the basement...... sameen has shown absolutely no interest in going down there and phudu liked the rafters a bit too much)

This is how I got Misty. I was the lady with two cats so the guy who found her brought her to me

literally me

like if you have 3 cats who thinks you need MORE

people who say me go "oh my god i could never do more than two, three would be two much" and then get a third a few months later, i guess

which

can't blame them

I have 4 indoor, 1 semi-feral outdoor (plus fosters) so I can say nothing

3 is my max

i tell my cats i have two hands so i can pet two cats at the same time so that's my limit...unless i get cats that will accept feet-petting again i guess

if Odie hadn't been my cat and been found after a million years of being missing, I would have been fine with just 2

Part of me wants to get a younger kitty for when I lose Tilda, but Tilda is so much happier as an only I think.

Ian out burger aaaa wait when did the missing/reappearing thing happen; i feel like i remember you having a cat go missing like a decade ago, was that him?

no i believe that was Franz. Odie was my first cat that I adopted when I was 18 and he disappeared when he was about a year and a half old. so he was gone from. 2011(probably just before I started playing in Adstring and showed up a little before Thanksgiving last year. 13 years.

14 years apart ♡

holy SHIT that span

did you ever find out what happened?? was he taken in by someone else who realized you were his original family?

nvm I scrolled back through your plurk to find it lol

god that's so amazing and insane

I think i definitely do remember you talking about long lost Cloud. the new name for the journeyman senior citizen is also great

sorry I was brain rotting in the bathtub xD but yeah, its kind of wild.

yeah I loved Cloud. he was the most fun but a very adventurous cat. the running theory is someone stole him since he was an indoor outdoor cat and then he got out again when he was older.

the sweetest old man, very food motivated.

but yes, i did not plan to have 3 cats xD but then my prodigal son returned

3 turned out to be the right number for my household too, but I constantly find myself going "hmmm okay but if I did get a fourth, how much more space/stuff would I need...." fhdjdhd

I have a client who's a retired lady who fosters all the cats the local rescue has trouble adopting out, like ones with special needs or elderly ones or whatnot. Which ends up meaning they're mostly long term fosters. When I stayed with them for a week, there were 19 of them and I love every single one of them, and that lady is life goals for me

god, that's like a full-time job! how did she manage that many?

We have five, two of which started with my roommate emailing me at work with “please don’t kill me” and a pic of a cat attached.