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I am loving your pet count... I have a few cats myself but WOW! How do you manage all of them? |
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Well, my wife does most of the managing, so I can't really take credit for that! We started with one dog in 1992 (he turns 16 in February) and I brought home the first stray a little less than a year later. We got heavily involved in rescue work, and ended up with this foster staying, and then that foster staying, and so on. There was no plan to have this many, believe me! But we realized we were good at caring for them, and so here we are today.
10 of the 13 dogs are between 12 and 18, so we're facing a lot of loss over the next few years. We've had 10 dogs die in the past five years already. Not easy stuff to deal with. Our house is pretty low key, they all get along, and mostly listen to mom. Once I go full-time with trading, she'll be able to devote all her energy to them, which is what she's been wanting to do. I would strongly suggest against having as many animals as we do, and also running a petsitting business that can have you on the road 12 hours per day... not the best life to choose!
