i mean, to be fair, the first two cats are technically my gf's because she paid for them both from the shelter and they originally lived in her apartment. so right there, that halves my number of cats down to two.
and after we moved into the house, she began talking about adopting a third adult cat now that there's all this extra space, and i surprised her with the two kittens just before her birthday (imagine someone getting home from work all tired and miserable, and then in a split second suddenly turning back into a child).
so technically if I claim the kittens were a birthday gift to her, that would mean I actually have zero cats.