I also had a rule that we should have a big house to afford a dog like the ones we had when I was a child 2 German shepherds (at different times) and also a bulldog.

When I was a child we also had cats, and a Parakeet. The cat, I remember, was having a fluffy mohair type coat, he used to like hiding in the drawers, my mum sometimes  used to be surprised when she pulled the drawer, she used to find a fluffy mohair type thing. She sometimes confused him with a knitted mohair pullover, it was so funny seing my mum screaming when the cat jumped from the drawer.
That cat had brown feet and brown snout, but a white snow fluffy coat  my mum used to say, suspiciously, that this cat went surely to eat what left in the oven, this is why he burned his feet and his snout, my mum was a fun mum.

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I used to hide the leftover to feed the cat my mum used to give him little to eat because my mum did not like a fat cat, it keep him healthy she used to say.
She used to say keep this leftovers to the dog, the cat does not need that much.

I was not liking the pet at home, I was felling so precious that no cat was allowed to jump on my knees. My little sister used to like pets but not me.

I liked pets so I used to give them generous part of food, but nothing else.

My sister used to say you feel so precious. I did not like cleaning after the pets. I created a rule that my little sister  likes so much pets so she must like the duties around it, I was saved from that tasks for a while until my mum and my dad put a list of tasks for each of us and a shift for us all between watering flowers in the front house and the garden sweeping the terrace and the corridor, pets duties etc… We used to give a hand even as children, my parents gave us house responsibilities very early.