Further to my post last week about home working routines on bank holidays, I decided on a kind of half-way course – to do a post today but to make it a lighthearted follow-up to the piece on home workers’ pets.
As well as the comments on the post, I received quite a few tweets. Dog people came out top (or most vocal!) with Melanie Shearn explaining ‘We’re both very playful so have tugs-of-war & charge around house & garden together. When they’re ill – lots of cleaning 
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Sarah Pettegree‘s cat is well-behaved in winter when he likes to sit at the back of her desk next to the radiator, but in summer it’s a different story – ‘Sadly he not only knows how to sit on keyboards, he can wrench keys off when removing him.’
So maybe smaller animals have something going for them? Melanie also put in a word for hamsters – ‘A good one for 5-9ers is hamsters. They’re so inquisitive and funny. But sleep all day. And ‘caged’ animals not for everyone.’
Julie Mitchell-Mehta lives in Aberdeenshire and prefers her feathered friends – ‘Chickens are good. Don’t interrupt phone calls [like my publisher's dog!] but good excuse to pop out to feed them – and eggs for lunch. Let them out and feed them first thing, collect eggs, lock them in again when it gets dark. Clean out once a week 
Not many foxes here, worse in cities. Make sure you always lock them in safely as soon as it gets dark.’
Julie would probably not relish a fox in the neighbourhood, unlike David Wike, editor of The Watercooler who loves his wildlife and appreciates the result of his garden being adopted by a fox – ‘Foxes are better than cats. They eat snails not birds.’ Well, I never knew that.
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