Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thesaveanimalssite.com. NS
Answer
thesaveanimalssite.com. 5 NS ns-376.awsdns-47.com.
thesaveanimalssite.com. 5 NS ns-1303.awsdns-34.org.
thesaveanimalssite.com. 5 NS ns-1732.awsdns-24.co.uk.
thesaveanimalssite.com. 5 NS ns-1766.awsdns-28.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0