@PugLove888 I think a new breed of dog has just officially been named Schnotty!
One note of caution though adding extended families sometimes doesn't work on families being added from the library for some reason, it can give an error message when editing the relationship panel but otherwise works fine.
The idea came about because of a death when I first started Jungle Adventure. I had 2 friends in separate solo households who I decided were of that region and culture, who travelled around the jungle as part of discovering their ancestry and wrote books about it. Ora Reyna (Ora the explorer, get it?) and Vitalia Soldado. But Ora was killed when she visited the jungle alone (and her idiot creator had forgotten to make a backup save, my bad). Distraught Vitalia looked everywhere for her but found no trace. Then in Vitalia's household game, Ora popped up at the spice festival weeks later a very sad ghost (and me a bit freaked out, as we've discussed on another thread, I'm easily spooked). It's literally the only time I've ever had a ghost visit the spice festival. So Vitalia moved her in to her home and acquired all the skills to bring her best friend back from the dead with Ambrosia.
After all that effort I decided to expand their households, add parents and siblings and make them the central families. Ora married Vitalia's brother Nico and rescued a load of jungle dogs and Vitalia married a jungle local Fernando, bought Yuma Heights (modernised it but kept it faithful to the snow globe) and adopted 3 children.
Their little tale of friendship became my own game lore and about 10 different households came out of it so far. I still have Vitalia's brother in law Javier to add back in and Ora's teen brother to age up and start a family!