First animal I remember was my mother’s Pomeranian, nastiest animal I’ve ever been around. Loved her. But that dog would chase me. But no, I’ve always been around it. And we grew up, Columbus was a small town at the time. There’s about 25,000 people in the town, but it was a very progressive town. It was known as the Athens of the Prairie because companies like Cummins Diesel headquartered there, Arvin Industry, Hamilton Cosco, they all contributed to the town like Cummins paid for every architect to come in and do all the public buildings, Hamilton Cosco, they built big sports, complex ice skating rinks and things like that for the community. So it was a great place. And I grew up on a creek or creek, depend upon where you’re from in my backyard. And my father was, he wasn’t an avid hunter, but he liked to hunt.
