Taking a brief break from herding cats right now.
Because of Tab's bladder stones (and subsequent surgery to remove said stones) he has to be on a special diet now...for life. An EXPENSIVE diet...which we don't want to feed to SIX cats. So we've been feeding them separately...but when all six are "grazers", eating a little here, a little there, that's not really practical. I ended up doing a bunch of research and we found programmable feeders that will read microchips. We bought one large one that can be programmed for the five normal cats, and one small individual one for Tab.
Next step - getting six cats microchipped. SOMEone thought it would be a great idea to get them all done at once. I don't know who that would be, but she's REALLY stupid.
We have a dog carrier that fits 3, a large cat carrier that fits 2, and a small cat carrier. Milo & Molly are in the medium one already, and Cricket & Button are in the large one. We are 2/3 done. Tab & Mel are pretty mellow, so they're the easiest. Tab is going to get crammed into the small one, Mel will join the girls in the large one.
Yikes. So far, we both have intact skin. One towel is somewhat ragged...