Alright, hear me out. Sometimes things can get a little crazy and you end up breeding like crazy, and your den ends up overflooding with lions.

You don't notice all that much, because you have, say, 40 territory slots and 30 lionesses. The game doesn't count all the pesky little cubs you have until they grow up, and by then it's too late. You chase half of your pride and before you know it, you do the same mistake again.

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Ok, so here it goes: I suggest that players have the option to set a max lion cap that includes all the lions, rather than only counting adults like the territory slots do.

-That capacity can't exceed the number of territory slots you have, of course. Basically, it prevents you from expanding your pride more than you intend to; reaching the maximum you set will prevent you from breeding, claiming and buying lions.

- Territory slots remain and this new cap is purely optional. For people like me who have no self-control and end up drowning in a sea of lions all the time but don't have the willpower to actually care for that much lions.

-You could also insert a message when you first set your cap. When attempting to remove that cap, a dialogue box would appear.
Example: Jerry really wants to breed that VLF, but he will need to remove his personal lion cap. He tries to and is greeted with a dialogue box saying "Remember that time you had 40 lionesses and 50 cubs, Jerry? Do you want that to happen again? - Do you want to proceed?" greeted him. Jerry gave up.

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Feel free to share your opinions and/or additional suggestions!

Suggestions:

Mini Bear (#80674):
It could say some like this....

Total lioness :: XX
Total Adolescents :: XX
Total Cub :: XX
Total :: XX
*my addition to this suggestion* if separating adols from cubs is too much work, simply add a total to the current counter.