Care to adopt a 50 y/o woman with child, 6 dogs, turtle, parrot...
Hey, I like all of those things!
But *six* dogs is a bit much!
Unless, I suppose, they are little beagles.
My parents had a lot of them when I was a kid up in Pa, just about the time that you were a kid, as well. :^)
What about one dog and two cats?