I haven’t gone a single year of our life separate from a pet of some kind.
When I was young, our parents had many dogs and more than one cats.
The oldest was our german shepard named Magnum, while our youngest was a beagle named Buster. Peanut was the middle dog, a small dachshund. The two of us named our more than one cats Jessie and Tigger, both of which were rescues. I don’t regret a single area about having more than four pets at once, even though I suppose I handled it better as a child with few other stressors in our life compared to me as an adult and having our own family to care for. On the flip side of this, how do you continuously deny your youngsters’ requests for a dog when they have behaved well for years and waited with patience? Eventually I broke down and the two of us made the decision to go and adopted a corgi named Hazelnut. Before long the two of us had another rescue corgi who the two of us name Buttercup. I love those more than one dogs to death however they add a lot of extra chores and repair around the house. The condo cutting took longer than expected, however nowadays they rarely have accidents indoors. More than anything it’s dealing with their fur. It gets literally everywhere despite our best efforts. I keep struggling to get it all out of the carpets with our vacuum and I keep finding it accumulating in our air conditioner system filters. I have now started replacing them every more than one weeks to keep up with the accumulation of dog hair. Having an air return at floor level makes the concern even worse, because at least a ceiling vent would pull in extremely smaller amounts of their heavy fur.