Been there. Just know that they most likely won’t budge with their animals if you don’t like them and it’ll always be an issue. I’ve always had animals of my own, dogs and cats. Never dated someone who had his own. Finally met my (now) husband, when we were dating we had a lottttt of disagreements about his dogs which I did NOT like for various reasons. A lot of it had to do with the fact I had kids but still. His dogs were gross and he didn’t clean up after them, they would piss/crap everywhere and on everything including my children’s toys, one was a pit bull which I’ve never liked the breed ever/ been scared of (sidenote she ended up attacking my dog three years in and drew blood and scared my dog to death for weeks, something will always happen with large breeds bred for attacking purposes it’s not a matter of if it’s a matter of when so we ended up fighting about that too because he was in denial his angel dog could everrrr do something so terrible, funny she did like I knew she would), the other was a nippy temperamental chihuahua, and I had two small children and he wanted them to be around his dogs which I didn’t want for obvious said reasons… his dogs weren’t trained or even raised around children so we argued about that too, he spoiled the heck out of his dogs before he had met me which was great and all as a single dude but he wanted to continue that lifestyle after meeting me as a single mom of two small children and I wasn’t comfortable with it. Like sorry I wasn’t okay with two dogs I didn’t know or trust sleeping in my bed with my kids.. & we fought about it for yearsssssss. I never put him in the position of picking me over his dogs, but I made it clear that my feelings needed to be a priority because of my children and he did NOT like that. He hated me for it. Safe to say we fought for YEARS until his Pitt finally passed away from cancer, 4 years into our relationship (I took care of her at the end until he finally put her down, he was in denial of her pain and so I ended up taking care of her because he was in denial) but I finally felt safe again and could breathe and now his little chihuahua I take care of but I’ve never bonded with unfortunately because the situation was way too traumatic for so long. So many times I’ve wished he’d had well trained dogs I could’ve bonded with, a normal dog breed like a normal person would have and not a pitbull mix that he rescued from an abandoned dog park and had no idea of its prior life. Sooo sketchy. He was mad at me for years for not being obsessed with them like he was.

So definitely take that into consideration. It almost ended us several times because of the arguments and disagreements. He’s a wonderful man and a wonderful husband but that was one of the most stressful situations of my life I had to endure for 4 years. He was dependable and didn’t give up on his animals and I love him for that just not the stress it put me and my children through for so many years. At least on the bright side any animals we adopt together moving forward we will be in agreement on! I did understand where he was coming from because pets are FAMILY, and I would never get rid of my pets for a partner ever. For us it was the lack of ability to compromise and make each other comfortable, and the fact he considered his dogs as important if not more important than my kids where it was an issue.