Is One Pet Enough? Are Six Too Many?

I may have an addiction, or my heart may be too big

Photo by Chewy on Unsplash

My mother spent the last six months of her pregnancy with me training a puppy. Sam was part German Shepherd and part Chow, both “bad” breeds now, but he was an amazing dog. He didn’t much like my brother and sister’s mauling him, but he slept under their cribs, and my mother could leave them in a stroller outside a…