So, I am a huge dog lover irl, so naturally in the sims I just need all of the dogs. So I had a nice family going, two parents and two kids and one dog. Perfectly reasonable. Then I see a cute stray, ...
this is going to sound REALLY bad but I usually breed the two adult dogs that I have so they get a puppy and "kill" (with a cheat to age past elder) the two adult dogs. That way I kinda feel like both of the adult dogs are in the puppy and it only takes up 1 household member