cats, by far. the four i've had have been the best thing that ever happened to me.

gorillas come next. (my cat, huey, has a lot of gorilla traits: hates to be ignored, doesn't know what to do with the attention, itchy as hell...)

dogs are next. two dogs, my sister-in-law's german shephard and a westie i found on the highway own top billing in the dog section of my heart (our neighbors' beagle, being a cat in a dog suit, gets her own catagory).

fried calamari is probably next on the list. hard to say.