We’re a nation of pet lovers us Brits aren’t we? We love watching shows about animals but we also seem to incorporate pets into all our soaps too.

So we wondered who – or probably more appropriately, what – has been your favourite soap pet of all time out of the three major soaps?

Maybe it’s the ever present ginger cat pictured above who stalks the rooftops of Weatherfield and walks along the tops of the walls in the opening titles? Incidentally, I found a bit of trivia about this cat; when the opening titles were re-filmed in the seventies, no one initially noticed the cat that wandered across a wall. Now, every time the titles are re-filmed, a cat is deliberately used!

In fact, they’re quite superstitious about cats over on the Street set and there’s always a cat somewhere, fake or real. For example, high up on a shelf in the Rovers is apparently a soft toy cat!

Or maybe your all-time fave was Eastenders’ Wellard? Poor deceased Wellard… or possibly Emmerdale’s Tootsie, Edna’s little dog that looks more like a slipper than a dog if you ask me!

Let’s take a look at some of the contenders… Read more & comment »