My family have five horses, so expensive they always ate better than I did, ranging from a wee little cart pony called Dandy up to Parnell, massive big pieball/piebald stallion named for an Irish politician from a few hundred years ago, and Missile TOW, he has that name because he is an ex-racer, never won, never lost, all we know is that he is terrible for anything but going in a straight line at ball busting speed.
Then we have the usual medium sized dog, little dog (mini jack russel, which is the perfect height for me to trip over constantly), cat and kitten. Got Goldfish too, one of them is over a decade old. When he was quite young I nearly killed him. I was cleaning out the tank which was so green with algae the water was grey, and I used boiling water to get it perfectly clean. Ran water into it, put in fish, walked away. Looked over a minute later and the fish were all upside down at the top of the water... I had used the hot tap and they were frying! They all survived though once put in normal temperature water, at the cost of my own hand, they just swam upside down for a few hours because their bellies were full of hot water, or hot air. Belly up. Dumbest thing I've ever done.

The Household Cavalry

Philosophical dog... pity he is called Spot, which makes him a retard as dogs go. Thats just the rule with names like that.