I'm a small market town west country boy, i grew up on an estate with close extended family, and between us all sorts of pets..

dogs, cats, ferrets, hamsters, mice, budgies, myna birds, chickens, fish, toads, newts, lambs, piglets, horses...

uncle kept horses in his shed, and lambs in his kitchen.. until the council found out..

When I was about 6 or 7 he took me out for a drive to a pig farm,
on the way home I had to sit in the back of the van on a couple of sacks full of piglets to keep them still and quiet...

I presume he paid for them...???.. never saw them again....


Me and the mrs decided to stay childless and petless...

I pine more for never having a dog again than missing out on fatherhood...