I had a giraffe. But I was rather confused as a toddler by exotic animals and didn't understand the difference between a giraffe and a kangaroo, so I called him 'Pogo'.
Pogo's neck broke from too much lovin'. So my mom performed surgery on him, opened up a seam, inserted an empty toothpaste box to stiffen his neck, then sewed him back up again. Actually, she had to perform this operation several times over the years. LOL