Good for you Fanatic! (My name is Lila btw. "Leelah") breeding animals is a spiritual endeavor, as is pet keeping in general. You learn to give, empathize, and the true meaning of "caring" for another being.
I remember the wonderful wildlife shows that were on TV in my youth. Now I ABHOR the Animal Planet shows that are aptly labeled "surprisingly human".
Marty Stouffer's "Wild America" may still be around on YouTube. The National geographic specials from the late 90's and the Mutual of Omaha series called simply "Nature" were my version of church, I'm not kidding! My summer vacation was to Etosha game reserve because I had become obsessed with the yearly wildebeest migration over salt flats and that whole phenomena. I drew everything I saw! Best trip of my life. Well tied for first, all trips in nature are sublime.
Off topic again(on flu meds) so anyway we are the same type of woman I think. We get what animals give, and they recognize we are their type of people,'wouldn't you say? I bring this up because I had considered breeding my AKC purebred Basset Hound for the past five years.
I finally concluded with my husband that, while he is an amazing pet, healthy handsome example of the breed, very high scent drive and tracking ability, he simply wasn't going to be a beneficial addition to the gene pool because of his behavioral quirks. Chop-chop. (He is a "resource-guarding" male which leads to aggression in the wrong situations, got to purge these qualities to breed responsibly).
I think that passionate people owe it to themselves or their communities to pursue their calling. Not all of us are given special purposes, but to deny the intuition that you were meant to be something... Well that my friend is what "mid-life crisis means", you blew it!
