Ty views the animals as a metaphor for his daughter, that he was unable to save. He holds them to high regards than even himself, and often considers them when he thinks back to life with his daughter. I don’t know that Ty is the environmentalist Andrea makes him out to be, but a man healing his broken heart through determination of keeping the animals alive. So much of the life he cherished gone and he is left with memories and the animals. …show more content…
Upon seeing dandelion enter the room Ty descriptors her as a “four hundred-and-some-odd pounds of determined cat, the yellow fire of his eyes, the mane swinging from the back of his head like an ill-fitting wig, the spidering limbs and grasping claws”(248) He doesn't mention fear or terror as the lion is freely amongst them. Ty feels at ease with the animals near, even in a situation such as this. He moans their deaths and focus on making their survival his number one