I'm a twenty-six year old artist from Long Beach, CA. I am a dog mom of a chocolate pit-lab named Hershey, chihuahua named Poodle, and a shih tzu named Chewbacca. I have over 15 + years of animal handling and care, particularity in rodents and reptiles. I also own hedgehog and a ferret. However, I am not afraid to handle or approach large animals but maintain a sense of respect and caution. I grew up on farm in the mid to late 1990s and 2000s - aside from chickens and goats, our household brimmed with up to more than twenty dogs. while this is considered illegal, my family and I always put their need firsthand before ours. They ate before we did. We allowed them on our sofas and beds, gave them the benefit of clean open spaces to run about in.