This week, with JEANETTE AINSCOUGH, manager of the RSPCA Animal Home, Altham

MEMORY: When I was about three I remember asking my brother where lamb chops came from. He told me and I never ate them again. I was 10 when I fully became vegetarian.

HOLIDAY: When I was three we moved from England to Australia, so I suppose the first holidays I had were camping in Australia. I enjoyed it but there were some big spiders there.

AMBITION: I always wanted to work with animals. I worked in kennels and stables before I joined the RSPCA 10 years ago as deputy manager.

SCHOOLFRIEND: A girl called Ceanne, in Australia. We lost touch after about four years.

PET: A brown, scruffy wire-haired terrier called Tara. We got her as a puppy in Australia when I was about five and brought her back to England. She spent six months in quarantine and we used to go and visit her.

RECORD: Every Breath You Take by the Police.

JOB: I had a Saturday job working in my mum and dad's pub, which at the time was the Station Hotel in Cherry Tree.

ALCOHOLIC DRINK: Possibly brandy and Coke, probably at my parents' pub -- an introduction to many.

FUND-RAISING EVENT: An open day at the RSPCA animal home at Altham with the then manager Norma Ashton. When she left I took on her job, about five or six years ago.

PET REHOMED: The first one that made a real impression on me was Rascal, a seven-month-old black and tan mongrel. He was very stressed in kennels and I fostered him in my flat. The people who came to adopt him arrived late in the day and I did the adoption in my own time. I remember standing in the car park crying as they left.

FAILURE TO REHOME: We have really struggled to find a home for Patch, a Bedlington terrier cross who has been with us for about two years. He needs a home with a single person.