When I'm at my mom's house I call them my 'small furry creatures' (she has a dog and it just eliminates the confusion) I called them into the kitchen one day and my sister looked at me funny and asked do they actually answer to that? in her cocky I know everything teenager voice and to prove my point in the came running and falling over one another. I looked at her then and said they're here aren't they
she just about died laughing