Gosh, should I count the ones I've known and loved, or just those my family - okay, my immediate family, owned?

That'd be 3 - Sheba-dog, Freckles and Gracie, for dogs when I was growing up, Cat the cat for one brief summer, did you just want dogs and cats, or do bunnies, hamsters, fishes, turtles and other critters count? How about work dogs that belonged to others, but I helped raise when at work? Ones I snuck Cheerios to? Dogs that I dog-sat? (Add one more for that during childhood, an Irish Setter rescue-dog ...)