Its so nice to know I am not alone

I no longer have the patience for people who judge/insult/criticize me of my love for my furbaby. I only need my parents, my one and only dearest sister and my hubby to understand and I have their fullest support. What I don't like to hear when they start insulting/judging me, I tell them off and I no longer mind losing a friend or two because they have been a pain my a** for all these years. Before I found this forum, I always thought I have a problem for loving my dogs and animal so much but it is not a problem, I am just being me and now that I am older and more mature, I am so much more comfortable in my own skin and my confidence grew so I am no longer taking s*** from friends who are not really friends.