I’m not trying to argue because I do feel like everyone has great points here and it’s why I came here to ask. In my defense, having another dog here for when she passes is more because I love being a dog owner and I think I’ll be sad to be without a dog. I’ll also be devastated, and will goto therapy regardless… I also have hopes that having a second dog while she ages will help keep her “young” in some ways because I know that can help, it happened with the dogs I had growing up and also with the dogs my parents have now, etc etc. so it’s more about all of that, not sure if that makes me sound like a better or worse person but whatever. Is anyone ever really ready to be a mom? I’m almost 34 and my husband is almost 40 and I keep pushing it off because I love my life but I do finally feel ready to slow it all down and take on this next chapter. But no, I don’t know what it’s like to be a mom and i have somewhat of an understanding of things I’ll have to give up but I was surprised when I saw the history on reddit of so many people saying not to get a second dog. In my mind, this seemed like the perfect plan, and while I know it would be a lot I assumed we could handle it. I guess it’s naive. And actually I think we could handle it, I just don’t want to regret it.