Wasent a problem with my mum.As my dad ran greyhounds.So i grew up with dogs all my life.As a lad we also had lurchers/terriers/geese/chickens,ducks,pet rabbits/ferrets and a fox for a year.It was like a fecken zoo But great surroundings to grow up in. My old mum drew the line when one day my dad brout home a goat from lanark market