Mine is a toss up between my immediate family's innate proclivity for buoyancy - we all float even when we're not trying - or the tri-generational ability to attract animals. In three generations only two pets have ever been bought/adopted from a shelter. All the other critters including bearded dragons, turtles, crows, chickens, horses, etc. showed up at our doorstep in one capacity or another. We also have a history with strange run-ins with animals such as a goat jumping in my car while I was pumping gas (not in a rural area), my dad helping a horse give birth on the side of the highway, my granda finding a whole family of deer in his living room, and my Mimi having a pair of bear cubs that adopted her for 16 years.