What do you call someone that is MORE than an animal lover?

I mean we have Shark Week - so why not “Week of the boy snuggling animals”? Not as catchy??

I love that you can count on two things with this boy:

1. Animal snuggles

2. Footballs.

I wouldn’t even characterize him as “animal lover”-that term doesn’t really accurately sum him up. It's not just a fondness - it’s like he MUST connect with them.

I think if he could grind them up and make them into an injectable form he would put them directly in his veins. I know, I know, that’s weird to say - but seriously if he could somehow make them apart of himself he would. He has so much empathy for animals...(AND people).

He is a different soul at the core-he loves people in the same way but has found that humans don’t always respond the same way as animals. Like, they don’t always love having him directly up in their business or his curious touches on the nose just to see what it feels like don't always

go over the same with people. And babies...oh my...he loves him some babies! At a restaurant awhile back I noticed he couldn’t stop staring at a baby at another table and he poignantly says, “Mama, when I look at that baby it’s like I have hearts coming out of my eyes” 😍 I understand little man, I understand. It’s like I have hearts in my eyes and an exploding chest of love for you. Sometimes I look at him and think I could eat his sweet little lips off - so I guess he comes by this weird primal love honestly.