I agree my mom tought me my love of animals but it was not always that way, my grandfather kicked many animals out of my moms life for no reason, my great grandfather(same side) threw my grandmas cats agaisn the wall until they were dead and forced my grandma to watch, my dad shot many animals, if for some reason he coul dnot keep them he did not even try to find them a home, send to to a shelter or have the humanly euthinized, no he took them out into the woods and shot them himself. my dad still has problems as such with animals, he has threatend to shoot our animals so many times, he has hit them and threw them its the way he was brought up, his father also had a horrable temper, my dad inherted it so bad that in our old old house he threw a sterio through the wall. my mom thankfully is nothing like them, she loves animals just as much as I do, and had many growing up, what else did she have? she never saw her parents, they were gone before she woke up and got home after she was in bed, she had the smae type of animals I did even and my great aunt also has the love for animals, I think its the men in my family with the temper problems and not to fond of animals, all the women love them, and had many growing up my mom broke the chain in my family because she split up from my dad, hopfully this chain is broken for good.