When I was a kid, I asked for a dog every year for my birthday/Christmas, and every year my parents told me I couldn't get one because I was allergic to dogs. I grew up trying to avoid dogs, and never got why everyone loved them so much. Fast forward to me meeting my then girlfriend in college (now wife) who had a zoo of two dogs and two cats at her house, and suddenly I had to be around animals all the time. And I LOVED it. My heart would beat faster when her dogs would jump