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I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practical to have a dog. So I got a couple of kittens, and that was it.

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.

Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog was - his name first was Bear, but then it changed to Big, and he sort of looked like Old Yeller. And then we also had a three-legged dog named Foxy, who we found because her leg was in a trap.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

I've got two little dogs, a little Chihuahua-Pomeranian I've had for about eight years - his name is Oliver - and a miniature German Schnauzer I've had for about seven years. They're like little brothers.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.