Your fondness for critters is touching.
There has been many times I've been comforted by the presence of critters, which I'm without a doubt is the Lord comforting me. It seems like when I'm distressed, the more likely I am to encounter more wildlife or even see a critter I haven't seen in person before. The fall before last I was in Georgia and I was looking through a list of spiders there. I saw the arrowhead spider on the list and I just breezed past it as I thought to myself, "Pfft, I'll never see one of those." Even though they aren't a rare spider, I had yet to run across one despite being out looking for spiders many times. Anyway, just a few minutes later I went outside and what did I see almost immediately? I seen a massive web and in the middle of it was an arrowhead spider.
The Lord knows each of us well and what is most comforting to each of us.
A blessing indeed!