That's a 61 percent average and the national rate is 33 percent, so our release is much higher.

They will be cleaning cages and changing towels and newspapers. They will do laundry and prepare diets by mixing foods and chopping fruits.

They aren't wanting this help and they don't want to be handled, especially when they're injured and very, very frightened. These are not pets who enjoy attention.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.