One of my pet sitting clients has a pit bill that they never planned on after they found her running loose and homeless down their street. It meant that they had to relegate the family cat to the second floor and set up gates to keep the other dog and cat apart from the pit bull, but they are dog people and were willing to do it. The family with the Dachshund acquired one cat after one of their mothers had to go into assisted living, another when their daughter had interrupted housing. These are not at all cat people, but they are animal people so they are making it work. Friends of our who never planned to have a cat acquired one after their parents died. Our own home became a three cat family when one walked through the front door one day.
Somehow many animals have an instinct for finding people who will find take care of them, even when it isn't convenient. And they find a way to make it work out between themselves, albeit their solution often fails to take the comfort of two-leggeds into account.
It's too bad people can't do this so well.
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