The ony animal that scares me really bad are dogs.  I've had an insane fear of them since I was little and one bite me on my back at a friends' house.  Dogs are evil!
 

Let's see, there are so many, but my most favorite memory of my mother would have to be when I was in elementary school and I went to the one that she worked at, and they were having a teacher talent show.  She and a group of her friends got together and did Diana Ross and the Supreme's, it was hilarious.  They had the wigs and the sequin dresses they were hot like that.  She died last year and this is the first mother's day without her, so I try to hold on to those great memories and the ones that make me smile and laugh.