2 cats is the correct number.

Accept your fate and buy another litter box.

Mr Colville, just accept your fate and move to the country snd open a cat sanctuary🐈‍⬛

The thing is, I don't think I actually want 4 cats. I love cats, I love all these cats, but more cats does not equal more quality of life for all the cats. I think Tinycat would have a better life in a different household with a family that sought out and WANT a cat.

I didn't rescue Tinycat II because I wanted a new cat. I rescued him because I didn't want him to grow up feral and be eaten by a grue.

Ok. Ignore my last comment.

This is a terrible conundrum, and why there is a thriving amount of "porch cats" my mother has made a pact with. ... she leaves out cat food our indoor cats won't eat, and the porch cats keep away potential rodent problems. Allegedly. (They couldn't do anything about the possum though.)

The possum is honestly part of the family at this point

Tinycat II is *not* likely to be eaten by a grue.

Totally fair.

That's very real! The best number of cats is the number in which the cats and their staff are all most comfortable and healthy, beyond which is too many cats

Who says 4 cats is too many. Keep the new baby

I ran into this exact problem. I adopted a cat from my mother and then I adopted a second because I was worried that it would be lonely. At the time I was working 9 hours a day. Then as I was working I found a kitten in the parking lot completely feral. Which was 50% more cat than I wanted.

How did it work out?

feral cat is still feral 7 years later. Hisses at other cats, easily spooked. Affectionate with me, hates people. I dunno how feral yours is, but semi-feral cats need a good place to hide and destress away from other cats. 90% of the time they all get along. Other 10% i gotta separate them.

Nothing to do but buy a litter robot.

Four Maine Coons here. Biggest is 22 lbs. It was pushing it. Broke down and got a Liter Robot. Way to expensive but does the job. Now four cats works for me.

Simply just use your too much love to empower your cat TETRARCHY.

Too many according to whom? If you love ‘em and can afford them… I say keep them all! 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛❤️

I have 4 cats and it’s not too many

Huh? Four cats is just a good start!

I rescued a colony all 7 of them. No cat left behind. Over the years 6 have passed away I am now down to 1. We survived and would I do it again. Yes I would 😀

There's no such thing as too many cats! 😂 Jokes aside, you should give it a chance, at least. Maybe you find out that you can manage all 4 or maybe it just confirms that new cat needs a new home too.

It's kinda how these things work. But hopefully you can find a home for the booger.

4x the snorgles though...

Snorgles is the perfect word to describe how my cat with nasal damage wakes me up every morning.

I have four. And a chihuahua. Perfect amount

As someone with 6 cats, 4 is my starter-pack size. 4 cats is a completely reasonable number of cats.

4 is a nice even number

The wife got bit by a stray in February. We live trapped him, and now Stan is cat #4.

No such thing as too many cats

And you can buy this for them!! 🤪

Of course you know what to do!! 😜🐾😂

As someone with six cats, my advice is to buy another litterbox and place it in a location away from the one you have now, privacy and being able to designate territory as 'mine' is comforting to cats in multi-cat households.

I cat sat 10 cats for a year and a half. FT job & an experience. For 2 years after I didn't own a cat, still enjoyed other people's. Turned out cats are fabulous, but it's easy for the person owning 10 cats who works 4 states away. 🤣 They were all "unadoptable." It was a wayward cat house. 😆