First of all we bought them a little house to live in that wasn't very nice and, me being a sucker for these things, we ended up getting a specially commissioned house. 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.

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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. 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. 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.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. All my dogs sleep on the bed and once you get dogs sleeping together you know that everything is going to be all right.

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I've always had dogs, I had lots of Jack Russells when I was a child but Nifty is by far the smallest dog I've had.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. We've made a rod for our own backs in that there's a two-tier system whereby Mary is treated like royalty and the rest of us scrabble around for what's left. When she was a puppy she had to have massive operations to fix her hips and knees, which meant she got a bit spoilt. He lives in Dorset with his wife Philippa and daughter Emily and their horses, chickens, three dogs and a cat. With three dogs there's a lot of walking, but we've got quite a lot of land so they are all pretty fit.

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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. 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.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. 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. I took my Alsatian, Winck, with me and we came across Lottie who was clearly in the most desperate need.