How many cats do you think is too many? Most people have between one and three cats, which seems reasonable, but there are those people who go overboard. If you’re adopting more cats than you can possibly take care of, remedy the situation before law enforcement does.

Recently, a woman in New Jersey was found with nearly 100 cats running around her $1 million home. Law enforcement got a search warrant, and went in to check out the situation. They immediately took over 20 cats out of the house, and plan to take the remaining 70 or so in the near future.

Some of the cats had health problems, while others were thought to be offspring of feral cats that got in the house and bred with the pets that lived there.

This shows that you can’t have as many cats as you want, even if you live in a $1 million, 12 bedroom house. It’s simply too much for one person or one family to care for while still leading healthy lives themselves.

People like this seem to believe that by taking in any cat that needs a home, they are doing good in the world, but this isn’t the case. By taking in a cat when you don’t have the means to support it, you are effectively making that cat’s situation worse.

While the cat may have food and shelter, it has the share those things with dozens of other cats. Having so many cats under one roof can cause respiratory problem, fighting and an inability to clean up all of the spots where the cats will vomit, urinate and defecate.

If you know of cats that need a home, find a good shelter for them. Don’t take the responsibility on yourself to care for all of the cats, you’ll just make their lives, and yours, worse than they should be.