PLANT CITY, Fla. — Our latest Everyday Hero has loved animals all her life.

She's raised money to care and protect them and has been honored nationally.

By the way, she's only 11 years old.

Delanie Dennis is usually surrounded by some of her beloved animals, including a donkey named Burrito or a retired race horse named Key Largo.

She’s an animal lover in the truest sense of the word.

Since she was seven, she has sold lemonade at her famous lemonade stand at her parents “Cafe Delanie” in Tampa, with 100 percent of what she makes going to local animal rescues, shelters and sanctuaries.

So far, it’s more than $70,000 raised.

At 11, she is now an official non-profit organization.

“I just don’t like seeing the way that sometimes animals are treated,” she said. “And I’ve just been raised with animals and born naturally loving them.”

A short time ago her parents got a call from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anmals, (the ASPCA) to tell them that Delanie had been named the 2022 ASPCA kid of the year.

A trip to New York followed for the award presentation.

Her proud father Andy Dennis said Delanie has always been concerned with animals first.

“My wife and I always kind of talk and joke about the day’s going to come when she ever realizes the impact she’s had,” he said.

And as for what she wants to do when she grows up? Naturally, something involving animals.

“An animal advocate,” she said. “I just want to help out animals and do all I can to help them out.”