We had these pets or access to other animals when growing up:

We had two dogs, Pete was the big brown one, Trigger was the small black and white one. They were originally my brother's dogs, those were the days when dogs could wander on their own. They would spend a few days down at my brothers and then come over to ours a few days. Somehow those dogs knew when his daughter got out of school and they would go down to the corner and meet her each day.

A lot of relatives had animals but I didn't really pay any attention to them.