Yay!! Good for you for learning about them first!! I know how you feel about the cats and dogs too....I'm in school right now and as much as I would love to have one or more of each, I don't have the time to devote to one. I was just going to deal with not having a pet and just croon over everyone elses till I graduate, or at least until I get off campus, but then Kasi got her BP and it went down hill from there. The funny thing is, we aren't allowed to have snakes in the dorms *oops* So she has a "turtle" and I have a very large "fish" ^_^ hehe