I believe people are born with the propensity to love animals, or not. I don't think it really matters if you have pets or not growing up.
I loved all animals, especially dogs, from the time I was a toddler. We had one dog when I was a child, but that's all. My mom said when I was a little girl, we would go to her friends houses to visit new moms and babies when they were born. She expected me to be ga-ga over the new baby, like she was. Apparently, I could have cared less and didn't even want to look at the baby. But, I would always ask the mom, "Do you have any pets? Do you have a dog? Can I pet her?"
As soon as I grew up and moved out, I got every species of animals sold in the pet trade, at one time or another. Now, I only have dogs again, but I have eight of them! I also know people who grew up in a house full of all kinds of animals, and as adults said, "Yuck. No way I'm having all those animals in my house like my parents did!"
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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