r/TuxedoCats • u/ZestycloseChip6990 • 3d ago

Serious question…

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I just had to move out of my apartment where I was allowed to have cats but only 2 and had to pay $40 for each. Now I know I’m bad I didn’t tell them I had 4. But I guess I didn’t think this all the way through when I kept getting cats and now I’m up to 4. How am I going to find a place that’s going to let me bring 4 cats without being deceitful and lying about how many I have. Now I can say all day long I have the best cats, they don’t fuck shit up, ruin furniture or walls or ever go to the bathroom outside their box and never fight and are loud. Now saying all this who wouldn’t tell a potential landlord all this right? I’m just kinda stuck right now. I’m living with my sister in law who owns her condo so staying here is always an option but if I wanted my own apartment does anyone have an suggestions or gone through this with more than 2 cats. And getting rid of them is NOT an option no never ever not at all won’t even entertain the thought, don’t even type it! Thanks 😻

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u/VirgoTex 3d ago

I say, if anyone complains just politely tell them they’re seeing double and should get their eyes checked 😂

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u/PandorasBoxSet2112 3d ago

My mother in law tried this on my father in law when she bought my husband and his siblings a few cats instead of one. They thought all the cats would never be in the same place at the same time, and all the cats immediately sat down in front of him in the living room, and the jig was up.

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u/really_isnt_me 2d ago

That’s hilarious!! :)

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u/Due_Tie203 2d ago

I know!!!

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u/ParkingHelicopter863 2d ago

sitcom material 😂

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u/zorostia 1d ago

This might be the greatest story ever told

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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 14h ago

They kept all the cats tho, right?

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u/PandorasBoxSet2112 6h ago

Yes, they kept all three. One of them ended up staying with father in law after the kids left home and lived to be 22 years old.

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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 6h ago

This is so awesome😭

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u/PandorasBoxSet2112 1d ago

I confirmed with my husband, father in law okayed one cat. However, the three kids could not agree on one, and each had a favorite, and all had a huge meltdown. My father in law has always been pretty oblivious and practically deaf and the cats were nearly identical, but they all lined up in front of the TV on the first night home. My mother in law told him he could deal with the fallout of bringing two cats back to the farm and upset all three kids, and he conceded.

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u/Helpful_Librarian_87 6h ago

That’s some Father Ted and the rabbits type of shenanigans

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u/Brief_Aardvark1145 3d ago

I second this notion, and add a little mind ya business. Even if it’s to the landlord…who puts a cap on kitty collecting anyway??? 😜🤭they’re beautiful!

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u/Wishbone_508 3d ago

who puts a cap on kitty collecting

My wife apparently.

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u/PlentyIndividual3168 3d ago

My husband. He flat out said he'd leave me if I brought home another. We currently have 5 1/2 The half cat is a stray that visits often but won't let me catch him to get to get him neutered.

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u/Wishbone_508 2d ago

My wife makes fun of me when I meet new cat friends in the neighborhood. I just want to give them scritches and tell them psss psss psss psss.

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u/theironzach 2d ago

I’m a delivery driver and I’d be done with my routes a lot earlier if I didn’t stop to try and pet every animal I come across.

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u/Few-Emergency5971 2d ago

I just met one today, and both the kids and her came out and gave it wet food. We're a cat family around here damnit.

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u/chirtygirl 2d ago

I am in the same situation. Hubby tolerates the stray but said we are capped at 5. Since I work out of town he has been taking care of the stray and I think the stray is winning him over.

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u/zorostia 1d ago

THEY ALWAYS DOOOOOOOO ♥️

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u/gnomequeen2020 2d ago

My husband and I work to put a cap on the other. We're both one weak day away from giving in and making this a cat sanctuary.

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u/LightningLily2002 2d ago

My dad. He said after we had two cats (who were brother & sister) that we adopted, and one stray who adopted us... That we won't take in anymore cats, but then when the sister cat we adopted passed away, the other stray we put dry food out for eventually moved in and made himself at home... So, now we have two strays who adopted us and one cat we adopted.

And the 3rd and latest stray who adopted us, is a whiney/crying baby as he meows a lot, either wanting to be spanked, wants to be held and spanked like you're burping a baby, wants to drink shower water (even though he has an automated drinking fountain my mom bought for all 3 cats), and lately wants people of my household to go to bed with him. Let's the 3rd stray, he whines and cries almost 24/7 and I swear he is so annoying sometimes we want to rip out his vocal cords, but he always seems to act all cute and convinces us not to rip out his vocal cords. We call him our weird horny cat, because of how he likes to be spanked (he especially likes it when you spank him hard for some weirdo reason).

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u/umsamanthapleasekthx 18h ago

I used to make comments about my dream of having 57 cats, and now I have 4 and a dog. One of them had major health issues that cost a few grand to figure out and now we have him figured out but his treatment plan alone is very expensive. I literally cannot afford for another one to get sick like that. I will find a way if it comes to it, because that is what being a pet owner means, but it’s a piece I never considered because I love animals so much and I just want to be around them all the time. We had another dog, too, who we knew was sick and were doing what we needed to do, but she died two days before a vet appointment and it was a serious eye opener in pet ownership. Five more times, I have to lose a beloved animal, and there is no guarantee that all five of them will make it to an appointment and be given a goodbye that they deserve. I never thought I would be one to say “no more” to pets, but the reality is if two of my animals get something like cancer at the same time, I might have to pick a pet, and the facts are that I will have to see five animals that I need in my life die. That is why I put a cap on it. After the dog, I told my husband, “If you find an animal in a dumpster, obviously bring it home, but otherwise no more.”

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u/mish_munasiba 2d ago

My husband. He said no more cats or he's out. To be fair, we did have nine of them at the time... 😭

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u/satinsateensaltine 2d ago

Hell, even strata where you own your apartment try to limit the number of cats you have. As long as you're not in contravention of city bylaws, I don't understand why they think they can limit it.

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u/Xplotiva 2d ago

who puts a cap on kitty collecting anyway

My wallet.

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u/Own-Ambassador-3537 3d ago

Multiple glitches in the matrix

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u/Wulfho 2d ago

They move so fast they create after images

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u/Seaweedbits 2d ago

Right? Say you have ONE cat, and they just like a lot of litter box options.

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u/Entire-Ambition1410 2d ago

Cats actually do like having litter box options! It’s recommended to have 1 more litter box than cats

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u/Seaweedbits 2d ago

I know, I also have four cats and five litter boxes, some of my cats will even pee in one and go to poop in another during the same bathroom session. Especially funny when they do it directly after they've been cleaned.

But 5 boxes for one cat would be comically excessive under the guise of "I have only have 1 cat!"

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u/OttersAreCute215 2d ago

We have four boxes for one cat.

We had two cats at one point.

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u/Larry-Man 2d ago

I mean my fiance has two cats that look similar. His roommate didn’t realize there were two for 3 months. One got outside when the door was left open and the roommate was like “nah I saw him chilling downstairs” - it was the other cat.

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u/thestarhikari 2d ago

OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/StarvingBeauty 2d ago

Precisely. Just make sure theres never more than two cats to a room at any given time when mr.landlord comes around. "What other cats? No, that's just kitty that you saw in the other room earlier."

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u/Knight_Zornnah 2d ago

In that case they need to lay off the alcohol