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          About Me and the Pets I Love

                     "UNTIL ONE HAS LOVED AN ANIMAL,

               PART OF THEIR SOUL REMAINS UNAWAKENED."

I don't know what makes a person an animal lover. Not everyone is. Perhaps we are just born that way.

I started by reading every book about horses and dogs I could find as soon as I learned to read.

Walter Farley's " The Black Stallion" books/ Jim Kjelgaard's Irish Setter "Big Red."

Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki -Tikki- Tavi" and "The Jungle Book"

"Wild Animals I Have Known" by Ernest Thompson Seton

And the book that showed me I must have an otter, "Ring of Bright Water" by Gavin Maxwell.

My parents gave me a little terrier mutt when I was five. I named her Queenie. She was with me until I was a sophomore in college.

Our sweet Nikki- rescued 10 years ago

Our self-involved, unflappable Saluki, Dima

And the Pit Bull and the Saluki adore each other.

 We once rescued a baby rabbit who came to live in our guest room. We named her Frankie. We gave her to a man down the street who raised rabbits when we realized we had no place to put guests.

We feed two feral cats, Masha and Shauna. They live in the neighbors garage, but visit us every night to eat.

We have been feeding Masha for 8 years. She is the wary one.

Shauna is the carefree, affectionate one.

 And together they watch

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