I've never been a particularly pro-pet person: I'm very much an urban soul and I'm really not convinced that animals and cities go all that well together.

Me and My Pets Stainless Steel Food/Water Bowl - Pack of 5 Me and My Pets Stainless Steel Food/Water Bowl - Pack of 5

For the first three weeks Maude showed a fairly high degree of interest in them, until she realised that they didn't do any tricks or learn to speak English. Sometimes if I take her for a walk and it's really busy, a lot of people don't actually see her so I have to pick her up because she might get squashed. I don't like to make Nifty look ridiculous but she does have stage outfits – so she has a little diamanté hoodie and a little diamond harness and I have roses to put around her neck. I never would have imagined, as style editor of 'The Face' or whatever, that I would end up being the guardian of guinea pigs, but they're quite charming in their way. They're a pretty basic animal and only do about four things, most of which you have to clear up afterwards so there isn't that much entertainment value in them.Me and my pet Rebecca Armstrong meets the style guru who fell for a guinea pig, the burlesque performer who loves to show off her favourite asset, the art critic who can't resist a rescue dog . He lives in Dorset with his wife Philippa and daughter Emily and their horses, chickens, three dogs and a cat. And through the underfelt and into the floor of the cottage we're camped in at the moment while our house is being rebuilt. Dogs are wonderful because they don't care what one looks like first thing in the morning and they're easy to live with.

Me and My Pet - Etsy UK Me and My Pet - Etsy UK

She's also the less nervous of the two so she's usually the first one to come and get her food; she makes a slightly plangent chirrup. For some decades now I've been getting my dogs from the Mayhew Animal Home and Lottie is number four. I always make sure they've got nice fresh food as well as their dried food – what they like most, like good middle-class girls, is parsley and coriander. The last time I went there I knew exactly what I wanted, which was a large brown dog, like a Rhodesian ridgeback or a Hungarian pointer.When she was a puppy she had to have massive operations to fix her hips and knees, which meant she got a bit spoilt.

Me and My Pets Soft Fleece Dog Car Booster Seat - Black Me and My Pets Soft Fleece Dog Car Booster Seat - Black

But I have developed rather an affection for them and I particularly like Hazelnut, the ginger one, because I'm ginger myself and I know how she feels.From running away every time I said, "Boo", she's now all over me and spends an enormous amount of time on her hind legs holding on to me with her forepaws and pretending to be a three-year-old child. I took my Alsatian, Winck, with me and we came across Lottie who was clearly in the most desperate need. My wife grew up with cocker spaniels and while I would put up with any dog, she wanted to keep the cocker spaniel thing going.