We raised 3 adopted children and at the same time nurtured dozens and dozen of pets. Do you think that doing one keeps people from doing the other?
“Do you think that doing one keeps people from doing the other?” Absolutely.
Why didn’t you adopt six kids instead?
Don’t worry, I am just kidding. But I’m serious about the point. Time and money are limited commodities. When you expend either on one thing, you are taking it away from something else.
One person is literally more valuable than all the pets in the world, for the one person was designed for communion with God. The animals are natural resources, and one of their “resource values” is as companions to the flesh we occupy while we spend our short time on this planet. They die and become plant/worm food. For humans though, only the body we occupy dies.