I could have wrote that story! I was a single person with 2 cats and a dog when I met my boyfriend, who has two dogs. I moved into his house in 1995. Our dogs had all met, but when I moved in we had to put up some doors to separate one part of the house from the other so the cats could have someplace private to go.

We all get along pretty good now, one of my original cats has gone to the Rainbow Bridge, , but we got 2 more cats, bringing the total to 3 dogs and 3 cats.

For people like us (animal lovers) it is definitely something to think about. I don't know what I would have done if any of our animals had proven to be not compatible with the others.