My entire life I have had animals. I have owned Rabbits, dogs, cats, pigs, hamsters, ducks and many others. Currently I have 3 dogs, 3 cats, 1 rabbit and 1 chinchilla. If we, My child n I, see a cat, dog or any other animal we must stop and give them lovins. We have fostered with the shelter in the past. We have a fenced in back yard. Zoey & Zeus our pugs are very playful playmates for each other but plays with other dogs well! Elvis is the sleeping old dog who likes to sun ok the porch and doesn't mind Zoey or Zeus playing around him. Our cats deal with our dogs and don't mind when others come over. Sometimes they hide but that is a life with a cat. We do have 5 different cat trees in our house and lots of room for laying around with catifaction done in the house so they can have alone time away from dogs if they choose.