hanging out with animals

 randombeautysls: Girl with Cat, both reading a book in Russian. {Which makes sense seeing as the cat is a Russian Blue.}

Toddler with a group of reptilian friends at The Luna Park Alligator Farm in Lincoln Heights, California - c. 1920s

life: Not published in LIFE. Jayne Mansfield with her pet Chihuahua, at home in Hollywood, 1956. See more photos here. (Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

killerbeesting: Leonard Freed -  A ten year old boy sleeps with his cat. Holland, 1995

jeanjeanie61: Jean Parker

the-seed-of-europe: Russian soldiers sleeping with puppy, Prague, Georgy Lipskerov 1945.

oldtimeycats: George Silk, Los Angeles cat show, 1952. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

retrogirly: Sophia Loren