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"Oh, so you like animals?" I remember a girl in my hiking group asking me this as part of our casual conversation and I was shocked. I thought everyone liked animals. It had really never crossed my mind that some people didn't.   At least half of the accounts I follow on social media are about animals. Specifically, I love wildlife. While our domesticated pets are definitely entertaining (cat videos are their own phenomenon), the critters who populate the wild spaces have always had my heart. From admiring the squirrels that roamed the suburbs in the midwest as a child to moving to Vegas as an adult and discovering the darling lizards and friendly roadrunners. Admittedly, the scorpions I could do without but they only haunt certain parts of town.  I always knew that I loved animals but I'm realizing now that it runs deeper than I thought. If you're here on my blog then you know my name is Pony but you may not know that it is, in fact, my "real" (AKA le...

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