We always had dogs. I always had beagles. I was raised by beagles. Okay. ’cause my dad was a hunter and encouraged us to have animals. So besides the dog had parakeets Guinea pigs. Okay. Then when I got a little bit older and started catching the turtles across the street in the swamp or the box turtles would come, you know, catch them and they’ll have a heart trap or on the road to save them from the car. And so, I mean, I had a pen out behind the garage that had a little pool in it, had box turtles in it, and blandings turtles and a little bit of everything. And, and then mom said, dad said I could have some more animals in the house, but no spiders or snakes. We did not have spiders or snakes in our house, you know, which was very, very typical back in the sixties and seventies.
