When are you that wierdo, the cat lady? Do the cats have to be in your house to qualify, or is living in the yard enough to make you the cat lady? How many cats make you the cat lady? What makes people cross that line from normal pet ownership into being the cat lady?
2006-11-16 15:14:21 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
LOL, this one is really a matter of opinion. Here is mine...
.It doesnt have to cats, it can be dogs or assorted animals.I would say the cats or whatever have to be in your house to fully quailify. I say the minimum number is 5 along with other criteria.
Now for the other requirements:
1 Seldom leaves the house
2. Not very nice to people in general, few friends
3. Allows animals to annoy neighbors
4. Usually lives alone with animals.
5. House and yard are usually messy.
6. Drives a car at least 12 years old, due all their money spent on animals.
7.Frequent complaints from neighbors about noise, odors, or animals going potty in neighbors yard.
8. No one knows the person's name, they are just referred to as The Animal Lady
9. Health Dept has visited the house
10. Usually uneducated
You have to meet at least 5 of these to be considered for the title, along with a minimum of 5 animals.
2006-11-16 15:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by MeRmAiD 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Depends on several factors:
1. Do you have room for lots of cats? A 20-room mansion wouldn't be strange with 8 cats. However, 1-bedroom apartment with 8 cats would be a zoo!
2. Can you afford to buy food, vet care, litter, etc for many cats? If you're a millionaire you can have just about any type or number of animals you want. However, if you are the lady using your welfare check to buy cat food for 13 cats, we have a problem.
3. Does your city allow you to keep many animals? Some cities do. Others don't. The lady who ignores city code to keep a menagerie of cats is probably a "cat lady".
4. Do you have a life? If you have friends, family, hobbies, etc besides the cats, OK. However, if you are the lady that lives alone, has no friends, no hobbies, never leaves the house, never talks to the neighbors...in other words, has NOTHING in life but your cats...just holed up inside with your army of cats, then I think you qualify.
As a general rule of thumb, I'd say more than 5 or 6 is getting a little weird.
2006-11-16 15:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by The Man In The Box 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL Well I would have to day the catss should be in doors but if they stay in the yard that might qualify and 8-10 cats is probably enough to make you a cat lady. I don't know what crosses the line. I guess if all you have is your cats meaning like no friends and family and you talk to them all the time like thy are human, plaus the fact that you have like 50 of them would make a weird cat lay. that's just what i think though.
2006-11-16 15:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by Lucky Charm 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I think it depends on the neighborhood. I am considered the cat lady in my neighborhood because I feed the strays during the winter months. I admit I do have a bunch of cats in my house too. I have 5 and my husband has 1. We go through lots of kitty litter but we have no children of our own so these are our surrogate children sort of. We love them and enjoy watching them play with each other and with their toys. So I guess if having 6 cats indoors and a bunch of strays hanging around outside waiting for some food and water in the winter counts I'm the weirdo in many people's eyes.So be it.
LL
2006-11-16 16:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by LeapingLizard 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ha! This is funny. I asked a very similiar question a while back. I think I'm destined to be that scary cat lady who lives down the street. The one everyone thinks is a witch, and on halloween, kids peek in the windows, hoping to find her stirring her cauldron.
I think cats in the yard would do it - they don't have to be in the house. I think 3 would mark the beginning of old-cat-ladyitis.
2006-11-17 01:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When are you the cat lady is when you love cats so much that the cats start to control your life... No I don't think the cats have to live in your house to qualify... Living in your yard more then qualify... It all depends on how you treat the cats it can be as few as 1 but as meny as 25... I think what makes people cross that line is when they start treating the cat as a god...
2006-11-16 15:36:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jazz_cullen 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
about 20
2006-11-16 16:35:44 · answer #7 · answered by dumb math nerds 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine has 10 cats of her own & feeds about 20 strays so I guess that makes her a cat lady plus everything in her house is cats lol every where U look no joke her towels nick nacks her phone is a cat & even meows lol..All her bed linens.Her tea kettle omg the list goes on & on
2006-11-16 15:29:18 · answer #8 · answered by sugarbdp1 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well it don't matter where the cats are long as they are around your house and you would have to have 10+ cats to be considered cat lady. There was a story on a lady who was obsessed with cats and hand about 250 cats total!
2006-11-16 15:21:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
That is my nickname at work. I have 5 indoor/outdoor and let me count, Patches, Sweetie, Callie, momma kitty, and 3-4 more strays that I haven't named as yet that are outside. 3 people at work are trying to give me a cat/kitten a piece. I have to draw the line somewhere!! So that makes 12-13! How many do you have?
2006-11-16 15:26:24 · answer #10 · answered by paintandhardware 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋