I adore cats and until recently have always had two about the place to soothe my mind
As a boy I had everything but a dog (nothing against dogs ) frogs, toads, newts, lizards, snakes,magpies, jackdaws,
Rabbits, rats, mice, budgies, guinea pigs(their eyes drop out if you pick them up by their tails) tortoise,even a piglet for a short while (my father said he ran away) and a lot of others that I cannot recall a the moment