What approach should I produce using decision tree

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I am new in machine learning and algorithm, the project is to identify possible cat/dog disease through its symptoms. There is no decent and relevant dataset, during my research I ended up using sckit-learn and found out this package cannot work with string values. what steps should I take from preparing the dataset to coding.

What I have tried:

I created mock data with string values using scikitlearn