I've always loved animals, especially dogs, even when I was just a little kid. I've been around animals my whole life. My first word was "dog". My grandma used to have a Golden Retriever named Maddy (where my obsession with the breed started), and my parents told me that when I was little, they would buy me dog books and I would flip through the pages to find the Golden Retriever, and I would point to it and smile. This was before I got my first dog, Toto, a mini Dachshund. When Toto passed away at a young age due to a "slipped disk", a couple of years later I started bugging my parents for another dog. I would make signs that had dogs on them and stick them in every room of the house, constantly pester them about it, etc. Finally, they gave in and we got Molly, and then around a year after that we got Daisy.

I'm with Kay. They've pretty much taken over my brain. I've got tons of dog posters and pictures hung up all over my room, I have blankets with dogs on them, I have folders with my dog's pictures on them, I have pens and pencils with dogs on them, I'm constantly researching up on dog care and different breeds, and just about anything else you could possibly think of. I'm known as "the dog girl" in my entire family.

And you know, I wouldn't change a thing.