I am a transplant from Seattle who was supposed to spend two years here for schooling, but that was over twenty years ago.  I moved here from Colorado after leaving vet school and wrote my own degree from Washington University and Saint Louis University in Middle Eastern Society and Culture.  I lived in the middle East as a teen after graduating from a boarding school in Greece and intended on moving back to the Middle East, however, I am still here in St. Louis immersed in animal culture.