In Dog We Trust: How Our Pets Run Our Health, Homes, Wallets, and Future We tell ourselves dogs are family. From the porch, the sidewalk, and inside eighteen thousand inspected homes, Marko Vovk sees something stranger: dogs as permanent toddlers, emotional prescriptions, household managers, and quiet environmental hazards all at once. Drawing on forty¿five years as a home and environmental inspector, Vovk turns a skeptical eye on the modern pet era-leashes that act like medicine, poop bags as daily lab reports, indoor dogs reshaping air quality, calendars, and bank statements, and support animals that blur the lines between true survival partners and convenient excuses. He watches dog walkers, reads the "data" swinging in plastic, and studies how fur, pills, outfits, and insurance quietly rearrange housing, health, and money for everyone in the building, not just the person at the end of the leash. - How indoor pets have shifted from yard animals to costly clients with charts, vaccines, surgeries, and insurance - What poop bags, pee¿killed trees, and early¿morning parades of dogs and walkers reveal about food, stress, and denial - The rise of emotional support animals and the gray zone between real service dogs and comfort pets dressed up as prescriptions - The hidden costs of pet¿centric living in small, sealed homes: allergies, asthma, bites, ticks, odors, and quiet discrimination against people who react badly to fur - The financial and housing fallout in rentals, Airbnb's, and apartments when "no pets" rules collide with paperwork and feelings This is not an anti¿dog rant. It is a blunt report from someone who has spent a lifetime inside other people's houses, watching how animals and humans really live together when the photos and slogans are stripped away. If you own a dog, are thinking about getting one, work in housing or health, or simply suspect that fur now controls more of your life than you admit, In Dog We Trust will give you numbers, stories, and a new lens-so you can decide who is really running the house, and what that choice costs.