Rather than instantiating a bunch of new variables, setting them equal to what you want, and then creating a new breed you can probably start with:

```ruby
breed = Breed.new(name: breed_obj["breed_nam"], lifepsan: breed_obj["lifespan"]... ) # you'd continue with the rest of the attributes.
breed.save
```

That'll probably help you shorten it a bit and seeing `Breed.new` will more quickly tell you "Oh, we're parsing this out to create a new breed" then a list of variables will.