Simon Cowell has revealed that his love of animals has even rubbed off on his 13-month-old son Eric.
In fact, Eric not only loves dogs too, he thinks he IS a dog!
Growing up around Simon’s dogs Squiddly and Diddly has certainly made an impression.
Simon explained ''He's walking now - and he walks like the Duracell Bunny. Part of him also thinks he's still a dog, because he's grown up around the dogs.''
Speaking to the Mail Online, he added: ''Because I work late, Eric knows that if he cries in the middle of the night, the chances are I'll be awake. He's worked out I'll go to him. "It's lovely, actually."
"In the past every time I saw babies they were crying, but when you spend a bit more time with them you see them settling down, their little characters developing. They start to take on a bit of your personality.''
