Steve Greig is dog-lover who likes to adopt senior dogs, and he currently has ten of them!

The dogs all live with Steve along with a pig named Bikini (but she thinks she’s a dog), two chickens, two ducks, two pigeons, a few cats that live in the garage, a rabbit, and a pond full of koi fish. Steve’s passion for senior dogs came when he adopted an unwanted dog at a shelter after his own dog died, and it sort of snowballed from there.

“I was just so distraught about [that death],” Steve said. “A month or two went by and I still felt so horrible about it. I decided that the only way I would feel better was if something good happened. That probably wouldn’t have happened if he had not died. So [I adopted] a 12-year-old Chihuahua [named Eeyore] with a heart murmur and four bad knees and I brought him home and that was just the beginning of all the animals.”

Steve said he has since fallen in love with senior dogs, as there is something special about them.

“They’re just wiser animals,” Steve said. “You kind of know what you want out of life once you become a certain age. These dogs know who they are and it’s easy to develop a relationship with a person or pet who knows who they are.”

Many of Steve’s photos of his dogs have gone viral, as he has over 744,000 followers on Instagram!

Life with a house full of senior dogs isn’t always easy, however.

“A normal day for me is getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning and making breakfast for all of them, which, you know, there’s 10 [dogs] and most of them have different diets,” Steve said, adding that he then has to give them all their various medications.

“I think of all of us in the house as one well-adjusted pack, but there are subgroups within the pack that have their own special relationships,” Steve explained.

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