Sophomore Taylor Dix has a special connection with animals. Dix has five pets at home, four dogs, Digsby, Missy, Cowboy, and Bolt, and a cat, Caramel. Dix has a special connection to Cowboy. Her family rescued Cowboy from the SPCA. “He was looking so scared,” Dix said, “So I wanted to check him out cause he’s a chihuahua and that’s my favorite type of breed.” There was an instant connection when Dix got time alone with Cowboy, “It was like an instant connection, he was on my lap the whole time,” Dix said. Something came up when her family decided to start the adoption process. As Dix would later learn, Cowboy had been in a neglected household. The home had twenty other animals besides Cowboy. His owner had passed without