How Many Cats......

My sister asked me how MANY cats are in the strip. Honestly if this is all taking place in one household, how many am I actually implying are in the home -- I had to give that some thought.

Marcus, the main guy
The Siamese (she was a 'rescue')
The white one (this is one of the pair of 'mad scientists')
The tabby (with white paws)-- (he's the other part of the pair of 'mad scientists')
The tabby (with NO white paws) - in truth I sort of confuse the two tabbys
The white and gray
The gray with a white tail tip (he was our Hudson, we lost him to cancer in 2009)
The tortoishell (she's based on Hershey, who's 17 years old at this point)
The tuxedo cat (he's based on Merlin, who is a tuxedo cat of course)
The long haired gray one (he's called Jake, same as our Jake who not surprisingly is gray and long haired)

Then they have the occasional visitor like the long haired black and white cat that's the same size as Marcus. I wanted to mention a diabetic cat in the strip. You never see any comics about handicapped cats, you know? Our Hudson turned diabetic after he'd been with us for 7 years, it's not a problem dealing with it in cats once you learn how to do the insulin and regulate the type of food they're on.