"'Louis, be good! Stop fighting with Teddy!" Stumpy, get off the table! Begley, leave Fonzie alone!""
"There are various barks, growls and ­miaows that indicate the animals are communicating their own opinions back to Sharon Shannon about a stranger in their house, disrupting their Saturday morning routine."
Sharon Shannon lives in Galway with six cats and two dogs and maintains a household where the animals assert themselves audibly. The animals use barks, growls and miaows to express opinions and to respond to strangers entering the home. On a Saturday morning the pets disrupt the routine by reacting to a visitor, prompting the musician to address them by name. Commands such as 'Louis, be good! Stop fighting with Teddy!' and 'Stumpy, get off the table! Begley, leave Fonzie alone!' are directed at individual animals. The scene conveys lively domestic animal interaction and a close human-animal relationship.
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