To be honest, ever since I was a little girl, I truly thought cats were weird looking and not cute at all. My grandma had a cat, and I would always stay away from her when I visited. My brother used to be allergic, so he would always stay clear as well. I have always told people, "I'm a dog person because dogs are so much cuter than cats."

I've always stood by this until now.

Fast forward to now. It all started when my dad found two cats wandering around his work. The kind heart my dad has, he, of course, took them and started to try to nurse them back to health (keep in mind, my dad was never a cat person, either; how ironic).

They were really skinny and seemed really unhealthy. The plan was my dad and stepmom would get them better and see if anyone wanted to adopt them after. We already have a dog and we weren't sure how he would react to them. But sometimes, plans never work out the way we expect them to.

Fast forward, now I'm back at school and my brother sends me a picture of one of the cats sleeping on his stomach. My brother instantly followed the text up with, "He does this every night. They are starting to grow on me."

I thought it was cute that they did that, but I still never saw myself as a cat person. Now it wasn't that these cats weren't cute; they are the cutest, but I just always grew up with dogs.

I came home from school one weekend and that's when it all changed. These cats grew on me faster than I can say "dog person." I walked into the house, and they instantly ran up to me and rubbed their head against my leg. Every time I laid down, one of them would jump on the couch and lay by me and signal he wanted to be pet.

My heart grew two times bigger when I let these two adorable pets in my life.

Now, I can never not talk about them. I get so excited when I know I'm going home and can see them. When it was time to go back to school after winter break, I cried saying goodbye to them. It hurt even harder when my dad texted me the next day saying one of them kept scratching at my bedroom door, meowing for me. I wanted to get in my car and just go home.

I am now that person who's like, "I have the cutest cats. Want to see this picture I took of them the other day?" and I don't regret it at all. Cats are a human's best friend, and so are dogs. Why not have both?