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In reply to the discussion: I hope everyone who thinks it's OK to "just breed her once" or "just buy one dog" reads this all the [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Dogs are, after all, pack animals, and one of the joys of having dogs is that they so often get along quite happily with others of their species.
Cats, my preferred companion animal, are not very happy about having other cats in the household. I wound up with three cats. The first one should have been adopted by an elderly lady whose idea of being really affectionate was to be in the same room. The second one was of the opinion that EVERYONE was her friend, and it took many, many rejections from cat number one to finally stop trying. Cat number three, the stray, had apparently spent her previous life in a household where the humans were men (she REALLY preferred men to women) and there were several large dogs, as she had a number of dog behaviors.
Eventually, they all got along, and I have various photographs of the three of them curled up on my bed, all of them pretending she's alone.