Here is another woman that goes by the same name among a
others aka Amanda Allen, Amanda Carmack, Laurel McKee
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/amanda-mccabe/
“She lives in Oklahoma with a menagerie of two cats, a Pug, and a very bossy miniature Poodle...”
Sounds like a different person, a single animal lady from OK versus a woman with six kids from IN.