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5 Ways to Know You Have too Many Cats

Updated on August 8, 2017

How to Spot Cats. #54 the Himalayan

Annabelle chose her own name while watching House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price.  She came with our last house.
Annabelle chose her own name while watching House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price. She came with our last house. | Source
The Foot has too many toes on his front paws.  He also moved into the tree at my arcade and was rescued by one of my employees.
The Foot has too many toes on his front paws. He also moved into the tree at my arcade and was rescued by one of my employees. | Source
Her cat wandered up one winter and never left.  She used to be called Fang, but mellowed with age.
Her cat wandered up one winter and never left. She used to be called Fang, but mellowed with age. | Source
Minkus is my cat.  He takes naps with me.  He came in a load of tires at my dad's tire store.  I brought him home after a customer stomped him (by accident).
Minkus is my cat. He takes naps with me. He came in a load of tires at my dad's tire store. I brought him home after a customer stomped him (by accident). | Source
Minnie was Liz's first rescue.  She went to the pound to get some sort of dog, she came home with "Skinny Minnie," a pitiful, tiny ball of matted fur.  Now, well, she's awesome.
Minnie was Liz's first rescue. She went to the pound to get some sort of dog, she came home with "Skinny Minnie," a pitiful, tiny ball of matted fur. Now, well, she's awesome. | Source
Peter Gabriel was part of Liz's next find.  He's a fuzzy ball of fur.  He also came prenamed and he looks like an angry old man from the front.
Peter Gabriel was part of Liz's next find. He's a fuzzy ball of fur. He also came prenamed and he looks like an angry old man from the front. | Source
Rosie the Red Cat is a tiny love muffin.  All she wants to do is get petted and purr.  She, Peter, and Eddie all came home together.
Rosie the Red Cat is a tiny love muffin. All she wants to do is get petted and purr. She, Peter, and Eddie all came home together. | Source
Eddie's mug shot.  The underbite is making his name transmogrify into Mongo.  We didn't really want another cat, but they'd labed him a "biter" and we were afraid he'd never find a home.  He barely bites his food, let alone anything else.
Eddie's mug shot. The underbite is making his name transmogrify into Mongo. We didn't really want another cat, but they'd labed him a "biter" and we were afraid he'd never find a home. He barely bites his food, let alone anything else.
Sydney Vicious is Liz's baby.  She's the only kitten we've ever gotten from the pound.  The others we got as grown cats or they wandered up.  Sydney is indeed Vicious.
Sydney Vicious is Liz's baby. She's the only kitten we've ever gotten from the pound. The others we got as grown cats or they wandered up. Sydney is indeed Vicious. | Source

Does your vet drive a Lamborghini?

Some people seem to think that cats are some sort of dog that's really good at climbing things; they're not. They're aliens from another galaxy come to enslave the world. But they're quite engaging and cute. Except, of course, when they're sinking their claws into your jugular and eating your cheeseburgers.

If you're some sort of dog-centric person, you probably ought to stop reading now. This'll be like Sanskrit, I think. Maybe not. You may be able to use it during your intervention with your crazy cat-person neighbor. They don't have friends, I know; they only have cats.

1) You have so many cats you can't name them all. Ok, we have Peter, and Eddie, and Annabelle, and Minkus, and the Her Cat, and Rosie, the Red Cat, and Foot, the Polydactic, and Minnie, the Giant, and um, let's look around, who am I missing, ummmm, yeah. Oh, Sydney Vicious, known as The Squid (her Mafia name), who's the baby and quite, well, vicious.

2) You have litter boxes in multiple rooms. This can also have social consequences: sure, we can have a dinner party. Let's move all the litter boxes out of the kitchen and into, um, the living room? You also begin to think of cleaning the litterboxes in terms of how many pounds of filth you remove daily.

3) While looking at your long-haired cats, you begin to wonder if you can harvest their fur. My wife knits and crochets, she spins, she's just generally crafty. When she starts spinning wool, I look at it and go, hmm, those two Himalayans we've got...they've got long-stapel wool in attractive creamy colors. They would make nice socks.

4) Rugs and carpets become a necessity in your home with antique, thoroughly refinished, oak floors. Without rugs, the hair floats everywhere uncontained. It takes two Dysons to control the crazyness. Each carpet takes more than one dumping of the cannister to complete the cleaning. Once again, you stare at the hair and think, hmm, we could card and spin this stuff.

5) It becomes difficult to do anything. You sit down, cats come to you. You walk into a room, cats follow you. You try to write a new hub and cats try and help. However, Rosie's typing of "011100111110" made no sense to me. I don't read cat translated into binary.

Now don't get me wrong, I love our cats. They are our children. We didn't go out and say to some breeder, "Cats, give me a cord or bushel or whatever measure of cats is the largest." Most of them wandered up and adopted us. Then we rescued our super fuzzy brand-name cats. Designer cats are rather fun, but they do come with built in problems. It's like keeping a tiny group of Hapsburgs in your house; yes, they are royalty, but they're so inbred that they're their own fathers and mothers. It is like parthenogenetic breeding.

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