The Farm Show, which runs through Jan. 14, is the largest indoor agricultural expo in the United States, with nearly 6,000 animals and more than 10,000 exhibits. The show is open 8 a.m.-9 p.m ...

The scariest thing about a black cat may be the way superstition and tradition shape people’s perceptions and prejudices about animals based solely on their color.

But growing up on a horse farm in North Carolina, she said, her first love was animals. “When I was seven or eight, I went to the shelter and got 13 cats,” Lim Nakrin recalls with a laugh.