My dad's been wanting me to move out ever since the heat lamp for my pet mog almost burned the house down.
And only cos I love sharing this photo, this is the most talkative kitty I've had, a random mog from the pound.
So there were no meerkats but there was a scraggy and very friendly mog that came up and spent half an hour rubbing itself around my ankles and purring like a tiger as I tickled its neck.
The mog ended up in a cat rescue centre after a passer-by saved it from a violent group of yobs.