Welcome Marty...hope you will like it here and be a long term resident at the FPA
10 dogs! WOW... a long time ago, I landed up with 8 puppies when their mother (not my dog) died due to suspected poisoning, and all of them used to follow me everywhere....even when I go swimming in the sea. But sadly, none of them are around anymore.
Last few years, I landed up with one Persian cat (compliment of one of my two daughters who bought her & then left her "temporarily" with me when she went to university) and the other common stray cat strolled through my house door and decided to stay.