What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up? Maybe a Ninja?

[Bogertophis]

I wanted to be a tiger trainer at Marine World. Even toured a college (Moorpark in SoCal) that specialized in exotic animals training and management. However, after talking to the trainers at Marine World, I was told basically the only way to work with the tigers was if one of the existing trainers retired and learning more about keeping large exotics in captivity and the ethics of training for shows, I decided it was not for me.
Now I work a very boring job but it pays the bills and I get the joy of keeping exotics as a hobby.
Still working on training my house cats though.

I used to live in Moorpark & enjoyed walking my dog around the EATM* complex. One of their caged foxes kept coaxing my dog to play! Poor thing was in "solitary"...
I considered their program at one time also, btw. *EATM stands for Exotic Animal Training & Management, not what they do to nosy spectators...