Are cat owners owning more and more cats?

[Bamspeedy]

Here's a change of pace for a topic in OT.

I will be amazed if this turns into a 'blame america', 'blame Bush', or right/left bash fest....., but then again it wouldn't surprise me.

So I go to the store today to pick up some cat litter. The shelves always had a bunch of different types of cat litter, divided pretty equally between 'Premium', 'for Multiple cats' and 'Long-lasting'. I pretty much always viewed it as just marketing gimmicks anyways and always just bought whatever was the cheapest.

Now today at the store the shelves had about 90% of the 20+ choices were 'For Multiple Cats' and 10% was 'Premium'. So that leads me to wonder if:

1. Most cat owners now owning multiple cats?
2. Many people were buying the multiple cats formula thinking, "Well if this works for several cats then it should be 3-4 times as good as for one cat".
3. The 'premium' is still around because there is still some suckers who think the 'premium' in the title is worth the money.
4. The companies that make the cat litter thought that people who bought the 'long lasting' ones were buying it less often because 'it lasted longer', so they wouldn't have to change the litter as often, thus the companies sold less cat litter.

I'm leaning towards #3 and #4.

 

[Xanikk999]

Hah, i should try to find that newstory where this woman owned over 150 cats in her house and officals had to condemn the building because of the smell of cat feces and urine.

 

[Truronian]

I personally blame Bush, Islam and girls in equal measure.

 

[JollyRoger]

The long lasting is so long lasting that you only need to buy it once and every cat owner has already done that.

 

[IglooDame]

I've noticed the same thing.

I used to have two cats, and now in the last year I've adopted three. I couldn't speak to the "quality" of the litter (it does its job, except one of my cats doesn't cover up his atrocities) but I'm inclined to think it is mostly differences in marketing.

 

[Keshik]

People are buying more cats because the Clintons had a cat in the White House.

 

[MjM]

Cats are horrid creatures, whenever I can cause pain or misfortune to one and get away with it, I do.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Not much need for cat litter, my cat does those things outside. But I think that there are more multiple cat owners, or then the previous standard litters have been renamed as "several cats".

 

[LucyDuke]

Cats are horrid creatures, whenever I can cause pain or misfortune to one and get away with it, I do.

I'd say the same thing about humans if I thought causing pain and misfortune was something one should aspire to. Humans are more horrid than cats.

(I have a cat. She's a terribly unpleasant creature, but I'm not an abusive monster.)

 

[Xanikk999]

I'd say the same thing about humans if I thought causing pain and misfortune was something one should aspire to. Humans are more horrid than cats.

(I have a cat. She's a terribly unpleasant creature, but I'm not an abusive monster.)

Lucy you obviously didnt know my moms cat. She would LITERALLY, bite someones ankles if she saw them enter the room.

She would run up bite them and run away.

 

[skadistic]

Cats suck and people who own cats should be exterminated then we work on the cats themselves.

 

[LucyDuke]

Lucy you obviously didnt know my moms cat. She would LITERALLY, bite someones ankles if she saw them enter the room.

She would run up bite them and run away.

I think it's more obvious than that that I don't know your mom's cat.

My cat's name is crispy, but I call her satan. She has attacked people for no reason, and while my dog is sleeping she likes to sneak up and attack. This cat jumped on my neighbor's back and clung to him while biting at the back of his neck. She's an absolutely miserable, horrid, unfriendly beast. Worse than any cat I've ever met. But that doesn't make it okay to be cruel. The beheaded dog thread got this out of me, too: the only thing I can't deal with is animal abuse.

On-topic, I think it's just the same trend you see in all marketing. It's the same litter, they just don't want you to switch brands because the other guy said his litter is good enough for multiple cats. It's like when milk is labeled "good source of calcium!" The milk hasn't changed, they just don't want you to think the guy that pointed it out has better milk.

 

[Catharsis]

You can never have too many cats. Unless you have so many cats that you can't physically move for cats, and whenever you breathe you swallow a cat, and you sleep on a bed made of cats, except you can't because all the space is being taken up by cats, and your fridge is full of cats who have eaten all the food, and there are cats being forced out of your chimney: then, you probably have too many cats.

(Catzrul.)

 

[IglooDame]

Cats suck and people who own cats should be exterminated then we work on the cats themselves.

Bring it on, biotch!!

 

[Elrohir]

I personally blame Bush, Islam and girls in equal measure.

You're only partially right - this is all the fault of the female gay Muslim Chinese Democrats who don't like Chuck Norris!

 

[skadistic]

Bring it on, biotch!!

All in due time good sir.

 

[Atlas14]

We're allowed to shoot cats around here because they kill so many dang birds. I don't know if I could bring myself to shooting one, but maybe if I saw it stalking a bird I would.

 

[Red Door]

I've got 2 cats, and I love 1, and the other one I hate.

 

[puglover]

I own 2 cats. They're both awesome.

 

[Left]

I had one named Bob and with no name but they keeled over and died.

Bob was nice, no name was kind of an ass.

Now I have a nice dog.

In conclusion, cats are OK.
EDIT
Im kinda a D-Bag.