How do you know when you've got enough cats

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Currently have 6 - all rescues. Have a fairly large house and can afford food, vets fees etc. My teenagers are all cat people.

But wondering what's the right number to stop at (for us) - worried about being viewed as a mad cat woman by the neighbours and whether wanting this many cats is hightlighting me as needy (though pretty sure I'm not that needy).

You can have too many?.

Well TCN has over 20 as far as I know - although she does volunteer for a rescue. I reckon you're an amateur.

Sorry - TCN is thecatneuterer.

Indeed - I would say as many as you can afford is fine, as long as they're not too overcrowded (I can fit 20 odd comfortably in a standard London terrace house - and I currently have an extra 10 foster kittens in my spare room) and you have a garden. Unfortunately there is an excess of cats over homes, meaning thousands get put down every month, so anything you can do to help the situation has to be a good thing.

I have so many not because I want to have that many, but because they need a home. So it's not me or you that is needy - it's the cats.

As for being seen as a crazy cat lady - well I really don't give a shit. (Although I do try to avoid the stereotype stuff such as lots of cat ornaments and clothes with pictures of cats on).

Thanks TCN

I really don't give a shit - This will be my new mantra, especially when my neighbour's mouth starts going all twitchy when she notices the latest addition. I try to keep to an all black tribe to confuse her

The correct number of cats is N+1 - where N is the number of cats currently owned.

This is the recently agreed rule in our house. N=3 at the moment.