Like many other bear artists, Doreen and her family love animals, they have a pug dog called Frank, and three cats, Reird, a sphynx cat who is hairy and shouldn't be, Caramel and Sparrow (the Cornish Rex). They have one tortoise called Frodie Do Do, snakes, a tarantula and a fat tailed gecko called Coco who a few month's back had a fright and dropped his tail, as they do, and frightened Doreen and her grandson, Benjamin who is ten, as the tail had an independent, jumping life of it's own for a while (eeeoouuww). He's now grown a new one and you can hardly see the join. Doreen also has another grandson, Connor who is thirteeen, who likes fencing with Jimmy, and we're not talking garden fencing here, and a son Darren, who is a brilliant classical guitarist, who has been known to jam with Jimmy, who plays the bass guitar.