Implementing a custom feed

I am trying to make my own parser and I seem to be having a problem as it pulls the feed and may be mapping correctly but only pulls '1' letter/# for each item

Here is what I have so far - not working but pulls some data
Parser & Mapper

<?php
/**
* Parses PetFinder Feed
*/
class PetFinderParser extends FeedsParser {

  /**
  * Parses a raw string and populates FeedsImportBatch object from it.
  */
  public function parse(FeedsImportBatch $batch, FeedsSource $source) {
    // Get the file's content.
    $string = $batch->getRaw();

    // Parse it...

    $result = simplexml_load_string($string);
    
    
    // this will iterate
    
    $item = array();
    
     foreach ($result->xpath('pets/pet') as $pet) {
    $item['guid'] = (string)$pet->id;
    $item['animal'] = (string)$pet->animal;
    foreach ($pet->xpath('breeds/breed') as $breed) {
          $item['breed'][] = (string)$breed->breed;
      }
    $item['mix'] = (string)$pet->mix;
    $item['age'] = (string)$pet->age;
    $item['name'] = (string)$pet->name;
    $item['shelterId'] = (string)$pet->shelterId;
    $item['size'] = (string)$pet->size;
    $item['sex'] = (string)$pet->sex;
    $item['description'] = (string)$pet->description;
    $item['lastUpdate'] = $pet->lastUpdate;
    $item['status'] = (string)$pet->status;
    foreach ($pet->xpath('options/option') as $opt) {
        $item['option'][] = (string)$opt->option;
      }
        $i = 1;
    foreach ($pet->xpath('media/photos/photo') as $photo) {
          $item['photos'][$i]['url'] = (string)$photo->photo;
          $item['photos'][$i]['id'] = (string)$photo['id'];
          $item['photos'][$i]['size'] = (string)$photo['size'];
          $i++;
      }

    }
  
    $batch->setTitle('Pet Finder');
    $batch->setItems($item);
    /* notes */
  }

  public function getMappingSources() {
    return array(
      'guid' => array(
        'name' => t('GUID'),
        'description' => t('Unique ID.'),
      ),
      'animal' => array(
        'name' => t('Type'),
        'description' => t('Pet type.'),
      ),
      'breed' => array(
        'name' => t('Breed'),//Double check return
        'description' => t('Describes pet\'s breeds.'),
      ),
      'mix' => array(
        'name' => t('Mix'),//Double check return
        'description' => t('Describes whether pet mixxed.'),
      ),
      'age' => array(
        'name' => t('Age'),
        'description' => t('Pets age.'),
      ),
      'name' => array(
        'name' => t('Name'),
        'description' => t('Pets name.'),
      ),
      'shelterId' => array(
        'name' => t('Shelter'),
        'description' => t('Shelter ID number.'),
      ),
      'size' => array(
        'name' => t('Size'),
        'description' => t('Pets size.'),//Check content
      ),
      'sex' => array(
        'name' => t('Sex'),
        'description' => t('Pets sex.'),
      ),
      'description' => array(
        'name' => t('Description'),
        'description' => t('Pets full description.'),
      ),
      'lastUpdate' => array(
        'name' => t('Update'),
        'description' => t('Pets last update.'),
      ),
      'status' => array(
        'name' => t('Adoption Status'),
        'description' => t('Pets adption status.'),
      ),
      'option' => array(
        'name' => t('Attributes'),
        'description' => t('Pet notes.'),
      ),
      'photos' => array(
        'name' => t('Photos'),//double check return types
        'description' => t('Pet photos.'),
      ),
    );
  }

}
?>

HOOK

$info['PetFinderParser'] = array(
    'name' => 'Pet Finder parser',
    'description' => 'Parses custom data from Pet Finder API.',
    'handler' => array(
      'parent' => 'FeedsParser', // A plugin needs to derive either directly or indirectly from FeedsFetcher, FeedsParser or FeedsProcessor.
      'class' => 'PetFinderParser',
      'file' => 'PetFinder.inc',
      'path' => $path,
      //'path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'PetFinder'),
    ),
  );