Claire with her pooches (Picture: Mercury Press)A woman from Shrewsbury loves her 12 miniature dachshunds so much that she’s spent more than £23,000 on them over the past four years.

Owner Donna Rennison, from Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, has documented her creative and adorable hand-rearing techniques, which include buying the pups heat pads, building them a feeding station and giving them teddies to cuddle.The puppies’ feeding station (Picture: Caters News Agency)‘The days following we researched a lot on how to hand-rear the puppies from the internet.

It smells amazing, but it’s worth being careful (Picture: Zoflora)Zoflora is the all-purpose disinfectant that you’ll find every cleaning influencer talking about – including Mrs Hinch.As it turned out, Donna’s friend who she’d visited recently had just washed her floor with Zoflora, which can be poisonous to some dogs.

The Riendeaus got Lady on a family trip to Arizona in 2001, when Michelle's sister-in-law said there was a "jewel" at the pet store where she worked that they simply had to see.

For many years any cat that became a part of the household was always either a Maradona or a Platini. Max is a handsome, agile 9-year-old who can walk, run and jump.