I agree that "too many" is a loose term because it depends on the situation. I currently have 11 pets but have been as high as 23 but I am home pretty much 24/7 and a neat freak so they all had plenty of attention and lived in a clean environment. I think at the point where you can walk into a home and SMELL the animals...they are at too much. When I was adopting out my ferret fosters I had so many people come in and comment that they would never have known I had ferrets because they assumed all ferrets stunk. There is always a way to keep the odor down in any animal as well as their enclosure. I also think that the day you can't give every one of your animals some sort of attention then you are in over your head (and sticking a food bowl in hardly constitutes attention!)
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