@kdfrawg My wife picks the animals. I just exercise veto power…sometimes.
The problem we've had with being "accepted" to get a dog before now is that we don't have a fully fenced in yard. We still don't have that. However, this dog is fairly small. Even with a fence, there are plenty of wild animals around here that would probably make a snack of a small dog--enough that we wouldn't leave it outside.
This place was ok with that, which has never worked before. We will eventually solve the fence issue, but not this year.