Eileen Lankow

Eileen has always loved animals and recalls wanting to play "pet store" instead of dolls when she was young.  She enjoys the "small jungle" in her computer corner at home, and says it's a relaxing hobby that keeps her sane in these crazy times.  She had larger outdoor animals in years past, but finds that as a "gracefully aging adult," the smaller indoor pets are a bit easier to take care of, and believes that scaly friends are just as interesting and fun as furry ones.   Eileen lives with her husband, two rescue dogs, a barn cat, 4 lizards, a leopard slug, and a garden snail, on a 5-acre farmette in east-Central Wisconsin, where she will have pets "as long as I am able."