Love your passion!
Years ago I was taking care of about 25 bearded dragons babies I recently hatched and my sister in law was watching me in amazement. Now she hates reptiles as they give her the heebeegeebees. She had spent a few years in Vietnam and Japan soaking in the culture and looked at me and said that is totally Zen the way you interact and take care of all of those babies. I never thought about it that way and it made me look at it in a different light. Even though the enclosure had to be cleaned daily and babies fed several times a day(with such a large group) it was one of the highlights of my day and made me forget about all the stress of my real job.
Your story reminded me of that, thanks for sharing