Wow! Lots of questions. First of all, I am an RN (Registered Nurse). Don't make that much money but enough. My children (step) are all grown up and gone. My spouse is deceased so most of my money after bills goes to my pets. I rescue ferals and some of them are tame only to me. None of my 18 cats lives or even goes outside, although a couple would like too. All but one are spayed or neutered and she isn't cause she is the most recent addition. Her day will come. Yes, I have about 10 litter boxes that I scoop daily and clean out totally every weekend. The cats eat a variety of foods from 8 bowls. They free feed dry food, Friskies, Iams Hairball, Science Senior, and Purina Kitten Chow. All also get 1/3 of a can of Friskies every morning. We have 5 water bowls kept fresh daily. 2 cats are confined to their own room, also known as the guest room as they don't get along with other cats, in fact they hate them. So they are isolated from the clan. Monthly we go through approximately 60lbs of Friskies, 10 lbs of Iams, 8 lbs of Science and Kitten Chow and about 8 cases of canned. My dog is also a rescue and she is an alpo dog, she eats a mixture of canned and dry, warmed in the micro for 40 seconds once a day in the morning and gets a pigs ear and treats every evening. All share in whatever I eat if it is something they like. Most of them get along fairly well with each other, many are related although from different years and many have the same Mother and/or Father. I have several family groups (kits from the same litter). And although there are occasional hissing, growling or chasing there are never any all out fights between anyone here. My oldest is Onyx and she is 17 years old. My youngest are 6 one year old cats from 2 different litters. Hope this answers all your questions and then some. If you want to see pictures of all of them and some others from the past and the colony, just go to the picture gallery and find search and type in PHWildCat and it will show them all.
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