So can you tell us a little bit of your backstory and how you got into animal law?

So animal law today is really animal protection law.

In the late 1970s and early 80s, there were a group of lawyers who decided they wanted to use the law to help animals.

Typically, all of the animal laws before then were about humans and human treatment of animals.

So basically, animal law as it is today is animal protection law.

And over the years, there has been a lot of progress.

And so I went to law school to protect animals and the environment.

And I guess for the lay people or the non-attorneys like myself, when you say a companion animal, Does the law actually provide a definition or concrete definition of what is considered a companion animal?