Open Thread: Pets and Children

How many of you Ramblites have pets, children, or small furry dependent things in your homes? Are they cute all the time or just most of the time? On a level of one to eight-billion, how much do they disrupt your sleep schedule?

Open Threads are meant to foster chatty fun, and hopefully continue throughout the week until the next one. Please feel free to talk about whatever you like, and do share any links you've written or have read and found interesting and worthy of note.