Python: put each line of words in a list

problem:

I
am trying to append words in the animals.txt into myList. The
animals.txt file looks like something
below.

code
tried:

opena
            = open('animals.txt')
aread = opena.read() 
myList = []

            for line in aread:

            myList.append(line.split("\n"))

print(myList)

animals.txt

COW
CHICKEN
DOG
RAT
MOUSE

expected
output for
myList:

myList
            = ['COW', 'CHICKEN', 'DOG', 'RAT',
            'MOUSE']