Thanks all for the input. No “snark” taken at all.
My friend, brilliant woman, great career, clean as a whistle. A nice size 3 bedroom ranch house that would be perfect for entertaining or a big family but no relationships, no furniture outside of a bedroom set, office furniture, kitchen table and a couple of small chairs. An interesting upbringing; only child who’s parents took in foster children so she had/has a lot of issues with trusting love because it was so transient. It was nice to see her take in the first 4 and the pleasure it gave her. We, her friends, are at a loss now. She admitted with the last 9 that she had entered CCL territory although we feel she’s been a resident for a while now.
Yep - new to the board. I like the post and the topics. You’ll see me again
Considering how utterly useless Search is nowadays (five MINUTES between searches, every other one of which fails due to ‘database error’!), I think everyone should be excused for not searching before starting a thread.
If the OP is looking for an actual number, my opinion is 6. You are safe at 5, but cross the line with number 6. (This is coming from a dog person. YMMV.)
Yes Hockey Monkey, I was looking for opinions on a number. Me, when I take that leap I’d probably bring two pets into the household so they’d have company on the same eye level, be it dogs or cats. But that is me. Shelli Bean… don’t know if it’s a good thing or not but she did cut her shrink apts to once a month rather than twice… could be the litter expense
I think 5 is a lot also. It really depends on the cat-to-human ratio, and to some extent a cats-per-square-feet ratio as well. A single woman with, say, three cats is somewhat atypical but not so far gone as to be called a CCL. A single woman with 4 is pushing it though; but if the woman lives with another person in a two-story, 1500 sq. ft. house, even 6 cats may not be over the line. Yet if a single woman lives in a studio apartment or efficiency (a single room with a bathroom), more than two is probably CCL.
Basically, how much of one person’s time would be required to properly care for and clean up after the animals?
