If I were in your area I just might consider it. I am one below my maximum catpacity at the moment due to the passing of my tabby last year.

Have you tried posting in vet's offices (flyer and photo with contact info)?

Unfortunately, she is also my last kitty, a Maine coon tortie who is hands down the sweetest animal I have ever known. She's my last because I'm getting up there, myself, and I don't want to risk leaving a beloved furry friend behind with no one to take him/her when I go.

Your little kitty is tempting, calicos and torties are always such wild women. I just can't.

You can will her to me.

I have to disagree. As long as you are physically able to keep a cat, why not enjoy those last years with one, and give one a home who would otherwise maybe not get one. There are way more cats to go around than people to take them. If you did leave one behind, they would then be no worse off than before. Sometimes cats come into our shelter because their owners died, and they are given a lot of sympathy, and prospective owners know that they are there through no fault of their own.

It might be smarter to adopt an older cat, though: a kitten is a 12-18 year investment. Senior cats still have a lot of love left to give.

She's been in renal failure for the last 4 years. I know now why other people who have watched a renal failure kitty do a slow fade say they'll never have another cat.

If I were 10 years younger, I'd get another cat. Not now.

I recently had to put my dog down. She was 13 and dying from congestive heart failure. You have to consider the vet bills you will be facing in the end. I'm only 50 and I really don't know if I can handle the financial part of this again. Plus, living in an apt makes it hard...stairs and no grass around. It was fun having her in my 40s, but my CFS is making things tough. Anyway, just saying I don't blame you for not wanting to go there again

a senior kitty. They are so very hard to get homes for, but can make great companion animals for you and you would be doing a great thing for them.

I do know that renal failure is a tough thing to go through, I lost one to renal failure on a Christmas morning one year. I have also lost two cats to cancers and one to hyperthyroidism that caused heart problems. But I am looking at my Sammy right now and thinking how glad I am to have taken him into my home. It only took me a month after losing my last cat to realize that a house without a cat in it just isn't a home. Hell, not having to clean the house as often because there was no fur all over and litter scattered around made me crazy. (Or crazier)

But don't think about it right now. You have too much to worry about with the care of your baby. Just never say never.

We have one each! And a male Maine coon.

Our calico has the sweetest disposition of any cat I've ever know. When we feed them in the morning, she'll come out to the kitchen and sit in the opposite corner and wait patiently for her food. No rubbing the legs or putting her front claws on the edge of the counter to "see" what we're serving (the Maine coon); no meowing incessantly until we put the bowls down (the torti). Our Callie just sits and waits--patiently and quietly.

And her purring will put a Harley-Davidson to shame!

I'm wanting to travel a great deal. I'm 66, and when I'm finally ready to settle down I'll become a crazy cat lady again. I will also always adopt older cats, because I know how rarely they get adopted, and I'd be willing to do so.

As you get older it is a good idea what will eventually happen to any furry friends that get left behind. When I did volunteer work at an animal shelter some time back, we'd occasionally get in a cat, often two together, whose owner had died and no one was left to take the kitties. Especially if they were older, and there were two of them who really couldn't be separated, it was heartbreaking. Those are the ones I will take in some day.

I'm going through a bunch of rigmarole with my apartment complex right now so I can have a pet right now. I'm going to get a cat, but I don't know when I'll be done with this process. I really wish I could take her; I love calicoes. I hope you find her a home soon.

Hopefully, she'll have a home soon.

...are you sure you don't need 10?

Where is she located? I can repost.

We reach crazy cat lady status at THREE. So you're already there - - why not sit back and enjoy the ride?

I've got 3 kitties and 2 dogs and I'd love to take more (10 years ago i had 4 huge dogs and 5 kitties, so I'm well below max capacity) but one of my kitties (a Maine Coon) has been trying to kill the other 2 (calico sisters I adopted when they were about 4 days old) since she was adopted. One more cat would probably turn her into an arsonist or something.

I don't know about dogs, but you are supposed to have 550 sq. feet per cat. I guess that would include basement areas if they are allowed in. I have one who naps down there--has long hair so maybe appreciates a cooler darker place, I don't know. At night she's upstairs on the couch so maybe it's a privacy thing.

I have two, and could have two more counting just the house w/o basement. But I also foster, so need to account for the occasional litter of kittens too.