'fustI love animals
So. We've got the professor and the shetland. (And whose croft do they retire to, anyway? If it were hers, wouldn't it be north Scotland, and not north England?) Also Ruperta's dog, Mouflette.
In v, Veronica the rat. In GR, Grigory the octopus (granted, not love so much, but still).
As pals, we've got the common-sense camel who takes Lindsay to the Chums ("[o]r was it the camel they were trying to lure?"), and, of course, Pugnax.