Aw, God bless you. I love animals, too, and particularly dogs. Your home sounds wonderful! Dogs are happy, loving pets to have around. My youngest son had a Beagle and she was very sweet. We’re too afraid to get another Pug. Our Jack was with us 17 years and I don’t want to go through the grief again. He’s only been gone one year, last month.
We had a Boston Terrier that lived to 16 years a long time ago. Our mama English and her daughter lived to be 10 and the grandson, who had everything in the world wrong with him a cleft palate being number one never got over 35 pounds, was the light of our lives lived to be 9. When he was 4 weeks old the vet put 375 stitches in his mouth to fix it but the little feller still had one little hole that food and liquid would come out of. We were blessed to have him and when he died we said no more dogs. Ha! that lasted a couple of years.....LOL! Everyone of ours except 1 Pug are shelter dogs. We’ll never be without one and when these are gone and if we ain’t dead (we’re old :)).....the shelter will be the place we look. God bless you for being an animal lover too.