AITA for wanting my wife to cut down on her obsession with “rescue” animals?

Me, my wife, and 2 children recently moved into a 2000 sqf 3BR 2BA home that has been overtaken by my wife’s obsession with “rescue” animals. The animals are either injuried or given up by their owners and range from multiple lizards, snakes, a tegu, a kinkajou, a few giant birds, raccoons and skunk for rehabilitation, a dog, a cat, and others. Yes, she has a state license for all animals. Although she started with “rehabbing” 2 or three at a time its grown to a total of around 25+ animals. She takes extremely good care of them spending hours every day feeding, checking their health, and cleaning their cages. She has done this for years however the amount of animals in the home seems to have reached my limit.

The birds especially are bad as they squawk and scream ALL DAY LONG and are currently in our living room. There is literally no place to escape them, I can even hear them squawk outside. It makes working from home a nightmare. The bird cages alone take up approximately 300 sqf of the home. As for the other animals, they take up even more space and we spend a decent amount of money feeding them. Somewhere between $500 and $700 a month not including the extra utilities for water and reptile heaters.

She will get extremely mad if I even bring up the idea of cutting back. It’s not up for discussion as I am “destroying her dream”. We have recently discussed spending upwards of $40k to build a separate structure with HVAC on the property for the animals however she still has expressed her displeasure at the “small” size of the proposed building (48×26).

Don’t get me wrong, our 13 year relationship otherwise is good and I walked in to the relationship with the agreement of just a few animals here and there. However over the years its grown exponentially and costing us a lot of money. AITA for wanting her to cut back on the amount of animals? Would that truly be destroying her dream just cutting back and saving us money and space?

AITA?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/14q1jld/aita_for_wanting_my_wife_to_cut_down_on_her/