I’ve been around animals my entire life. My entire childhood I had a minimum of 5 dogs and 2 cats and multiple fish in my family home at any given time. We started Hobby Breeding Collies when I was 8 and I was the helper to raising the litters to the age of selling to new forever family homes. At age 11 we ended up with a collie that had diabetes. As my mother is deathly afraid of needles, I became the one to give him his morning and nightly insulin shots. This became useful later in life when I would house sit and pet sit for a neighbor that also had a diabetic dog and needed someone to look after her companions that could administer the shots twice daily. I almost went to vet school, but was turned in a different direction due to a bad car accident. However, I have worked in many vet hospitals and still carry with me a lot of my learnings. I’ve worked through the hospitals with exotic animals from Red Pandas, Tigers, Big Horn Sheep to Lemurs. I’ve worked in facilities doing genetics breeding and husbandry for Rats, Mice and Rhesus macaques (monkeys). I’ve lived on ranches, trained horses, doctored cattle, and was raised around race horses in my early childhood (even helping train them when I was in college). I have trained horses for various folks in the past as favors and have since been out of it, but have spent a lot of my life around horses. I myself have personally through the years owned out of all my dogs two that had many health issues and have had to learn a lot around their special needs and care. And now after most of my life having a fear of birds, my closest pets in my household to me are my 2 parakeets and my Jenday Conure bird who is a very needy baby and beyond attached to me. These add to my animal farm of 2 dogs and 2 fish as well.