I totally agree with you here!! If it were up to my husband, his limit on animals was back when we had just the 2 dogs and 3 cats that we have. When I brought home the 1st BP he was so mad he didn't speak to me for a few days. Although now he is interested in how much all the kids, especially the older ones, like all 3 of my snakes (amongst all the other animals). He still won't touch them though...LOL. So now we are 3 cockatiels, 2 BPs, 1 cornsnake, 6 rats, a tank of feeder mice, and in a couple of months 1 bearded dragon past the 2 dogs and 3 cats animal limit in my house. LOL!!