I think people like Lou's BB should be banned from dogs and switched over to cats.
BB had 6 cats at one time. She still has 3. The dogs chase the cats too much so the cats hang out in the basement by day and at night we put up a baby gate to keep the dogs in the bedroom end of the house.
At one time there were two parrots, a macaw, 4 dogs, and the 6 cats. Yes, 13 animals in all.
Animals in reasonable numbers is my preference, but when BB had the 13 animals, I needed a vacation from the animals.
I still could do w/o them for a while. Our together trips are limited to 4 hours due to having to get back home to do animal care and toileting.
Two women (both men haters) a couple of blocks away have 12 dogs and 140 cats. They operate a cat rescue shelter but don’t take new cats or do the adopt out many cats.
I repair their printer, that is how I know what goes on in their house, garage, and cat shed. All of the rooms stink.
Cats are excellent case studies in differentiation. The cat ladies tell me calico cats have the most mental/behavioral problems. They are more likely to pee on the TV and VCR. The ladies used to play movies on a VCR for the cats but TV's and VCR's don't stand up to urine.
The cats only have (used, from the donation store) boombox music now.
