Animal Degree?

[Boots]

So probably no one cares about this anymore, but recently I've been working on my animal degree, mostly by hoarding all my eggs in the form of mayo in my rucksack. I have noticed a MAJOR increase in the amount of animal mini games that I play. I have 7 chickens, 4 cows and 3 sheep and I'm averaging about 3 mini games (spread out over all of them) every day. I used to have only one mini game every few days.

If this is real, then I should be getting tons of animal affection points, too, with all the mini games

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I crazy, or are mini games tied to your animal degree?