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I don't think it would work out... My girlfriend and I have a good size place and lots of pets, 6 of which are dogs.
Sweetie - 10 year old Rott/Pit mix, has degernative bone growths because her first owner tried to starve her to death as a puppy. Very friendly, gets along great with big dogs, but has something against small dogs.
Lexie - 11 year old Collie, very sweet dog that has had a stroke and needs help getting up sometimes... also dumber than a box of rocks (she will turn around, hit a wall, and fall down)
Money - unknown age, but at least 9 - lab mix, blind, confrontational with animals she doesn't know (because she can't see them). Got her name because she wandered into the street and was hit by Megan's (my girlfriend) car and Megan rushed her to the emergency vet, costing a ton of money.
Lucky - 2-3 year old blondie lab, very energetic and loving. Adopted her to save her from being put down by the Independence Animal Shelter... got her at the last minute too, hence her name.
Buddy - 12 year old mini-schnauzer, has to be kept in a spare room because he is terrified of being outside alone, but never has caught on to the whole house-breaking bit. Used to belong to Megan's sister, who left him tethered outside all the time, even in bad storms.
Heidi - 11 year old mini-schnauzer, kept with Buddy because she never caught on to being house broke. Really dumb dog, she got confused during house breaking and didn't realize it was bad to go to the bathroom in the house - she thought she was bad for going to the bathroom at all... she will hold it until she can't any more and then goes where she is.
As you can tell, we are the home of wayward pets, both of us being animal lovers. They are all really loving, but all of them (other than Lucky) have something about them that would make them undesirable in many homes. We also have a cat collection and a chilean rose-hair tarantula. Most of our animals are REALLY old. The only young animals we have are:
Lucky (see above)
Crow and Phantom (two kittens that were dumped by our house last year, 1-year old)
Juliet (3-4 year old cat that was found when we were searching for a cat that got out of the house - Romeo. We called for Romeo and heard meows, found a tiny tortise shell calico sitting on the fence, half starved to death - one of the most loving cats I've ever seen too).
All of the other cats are over 10 years old, the dogs are all really old too, and the tarantula has gone more than 5 years beyond normal life expectancy for a wild-caught Rose Hair living as a pet. When the time comes that these animals start to die, it is going to be like dominos.
Yeah, we have a zoo, but we are the only two people living in a 6-bedroom house on over an acre - so we have the room for them all. We don't have kids, don't really want them either, so our pets ARE like our kids.
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