I don't know, if you've got pets, but to me they're an important part of family life. They always have been. When I lived at home, we had two cats: Hexe and Mix. They are mother and son and I'm not joking when I say that they've got my mum wrapped around their little fluffy paws. My mum gets up numerous times at night to let them in and out of a house - worse than Amy's newborn days. They get ...