It is not just pets that I get along with better than I do people. Humans tend to make my life a misery, animals have the opposite effect. About a year ago now I had a run in with the law, although it was a while ago i hate injustice and been mocked by the boys in blue. A few months ago i had a lot of things going through my head relating to the legal case and i was really wound up about it, fist clenchingly would up, i was walking to my mothers house at the time. As i was walking a pied wagtail flew past me and landed just a few feet away from me so i stopped and watched it getting on with it's business, scuttling about bobbing it's tail as up and down as it's name suggests. There was no people about just me and that little bird but as i watched all the frustrations, anger and tension that were in my head left me, it made me feel calm and relaxed, it made me feel content and at ease, something that no human has done for me in a long long time. Until that moment i had not realised just what a huge calming effect wildlife has on me, i now spend much more time out in the local countryside walking my dog. I would not know what to do with myself without my dog, she is as mad as i am but i love her.