Sorry, I'm just venting, which I'm known to do here.

I can use the analogy of him wanting a dog in regards to him wanting his daughter to move here. We have 4 cats and live in a 1000 sq foot house. It's small. I love animals, but we do NOT need a dog right now! Every time he comes across cute dog videos online he wants me to see them. Has even (without my knowledge) sent emails to rescues when he sees a cute dog asking them if they could hold one until we had time to drive out and see it. Last week I saw a message to a guy on Facebook where he asked him where he got his French Bulldog puppy because he's been trying to convince me to get one but I'm not a dog person. The guy never responded. Then a few days ago he says to me "Yeah we don't have room for a dog". Wow, where'd that come from? For years you've been trying to convince me to get one and now all of a sudden you say we don't have room for one. See when you THINK about stuff, you realize it won't work! It's not that I'm not a dog person, it's just 1) We have 4 cats 2) dogs take a lot more work than cats and guess who will end up picking up it's poop and taking it for walks? 3) We have a fence that is about to fall down and has pieces of boards broken off where a small dog can get out, not to mention a gate that has a gap under it 4) We have a pet door that would have to be closed all day while we were gone so that the dog wouldn't get out, which would mean the cats would either have to be inside all day or outside. Of course he says "Oh I'll fix the fence" and "We can leave the pet door open all day. A small dog can go out and run around the back yard while we're gone. He won't get out". No! You can't let a dog just run willy nilly in and out of the house for 8 hours while we're not there! He wants something and thinks about all the consequences AFTER he gets it and then goes "I guess we should have made all these repairs beforehand".