I LOVE animals. My first dog from age 6-13 was my best friend, Kira, Irish Wolfhound. We’d get stopped on the street when I’d walk her after school because that is a very large dog breed, and I was a very tiny girl. Since Kira my household has included, standard poodles, German Shepard, chihuahua… cats, budgie, macaw, gerbil, fish, and rescue rabbits, chipmunks (who returned for visits several years following), squirrels - my mother loves animals and I get it from my mama !