The main reason we choose a location is based on need and, in part, the number of pet parents who express a need.

We're playing on the concept of pets as children. Pets are viewed as family members. They've moved out of the back yard, into the house, into the bedrooms, into the beds and under the sheets.

This is most certainly not the bird flu. This is a common illness in birds.

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from his mother so I thought that was about enough for him to get through customs. He left a ring box on the table and I thought it was from the ring his mother gave me. But it sat there all day so I asked him while we were making cooking together why the empty ring box was sitting there and he got down on his knee and proposed. He had the ring in his pocket all the time.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.