“He comes to work with us and is very good at ‘filing’. He will chew the corners off all the paper files, and all the paper in them, so each page has a small sections missing…”

“I met Cassie while working at a rescue centre (Blue Cross). She padded across the field, sniffed me and then rolled over for a belly rub.”

“I always wanted a dog called Marlow, as in the town in Buckinghamshire, near to where I grew up. But we didn’t think it was a very feminine name, so she became Marla instead.”