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I'm alright with animals of any kind as long as they don't run towards me. If they run at me I'm gone.
My youngest child we call "the tamer" because animals just love him. When we go to the zoo the animals come from the back of their cages to look at him. It's really weird. There are feral cats in the woods behind our house that will just come to him and let him pet them. If anyone else goes outside they run.
My mother and father have racoons in the woods behind their house and my son can go outside and call them out and pet them as if they were tame.
Once when he was 2 years old a lynx came out of the woods behind my parents house and ran towards him, being the overprotective mother that I am, I was running as soon as I saw the cat, but it just ran up to him, sniffed and put it's paw on his arm, he smiled at the big cat, Said, "Hey Kitty" and then it ran off into the woods. Weird!