My favourite?” she pauses. “I don’t think I can pick a favourite. I guess the pets that I ‘favour’ are the ones that need a lot of looking after. Well, take Bella for example [pointing out a black chihuahua that has come to greet me]. Bella is probably one of the dogs that I feel most protective towards. When she was born, her mother didn’t hold her in the mouth and breast-feed her like other mother dogs do to their newborn puppies. Bella then stopped breathing for a while. Fortunately, one of my juniors found her just in time. I rushed to give her CPR, and it worked. She started breathing again