I couldn’t stand not having a fur baby, as a Senior I needed the comfort of one. Hubby bought me a Morkie when she was 6 weeks old, 1/4th Maltese 3/4th Yorkie, looks like a Yorkie just doesn’t grow the long hair. She whined for 5 weeks before we could find a companion for her when we had the Peekapoo who was 11 and had had a stroke down. We found a rescue Shitz female who was 3 fully house broke, already spayed. All we did was get her Chipped like the Morkie is.
We happily sacrificed for our dogs. Lots of times we couldn’t go on trips we wanted to go on because of the dogs. But we did travel some because they loved to go bye bye.
We cared so much for them that we drove from Houston to Jonesboro, Arkansas to have their teeth cleaned because we trusted the vet. And we could actually make the trip and save money because it was so expensive in Houston. And that included gas and motels. Or maybe we were just rationalizing. Ha!