Hello, this is Jana and I'm here with seven stories written by you. Yes, the time has come to announce and read out the winning entries for our pet storywriting competition. Thank you so much to everyone who sent in a true story about their beloved pets. I've enjoyed reading through all of them. Thank you also for the gorgeous photos you sent in.

We've received so many entries, tales of cats, garden birds, canaries, chicks, hens, lizards,

lizards, petfish, a gerbil, a pony, but mostly dogs.

Judging by your stories, dogs are definitely the most popular pets among our listeners.

Astropop will be pleased to hear that, though don't tell him there are quite a lot of cat lovers out there too.

It was ever so hard to choose from so many brilliant stories. Some were happy, some were sad,

some were hilarious. Originally, we said that we would pick five winners, but because we had so many

entries, I had to choose two more. Each and every story were so lovely, and as much as I'd like to,

I'm so sorry I wouldn't be able to read them all out.

And so, without further ado, and in no particular order, here they are.

This time round, we had more stories from girls than boys.

However, the first winner is an exception.

It's a boy, Andrea Menegini, aged 11 from Italy.

Now, Andrea has already written a winning story for us in a past competition,

and although we do like to spread out our awards,

I just couldn't resist this super sweet tale about his little canary.

It's called Ceepe, the singing that opens ears and hearts.

It was a Saturday morning last summer and I was cleaning my canary's cage when I accidentally knocked down the cage and the door opened.

My canary got scared and flew out. Unfortunately the living room window was, and the bird escaped outside, into the garden,

and then into the street, and somewhere else.

I was very worried, because I thought my little bird named Cee was hurt.

The same day, me and my daddy attached a poster of my lost yellow canary to all of the

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