They kept the hair combed from their pedigree dogs and had it spun into yarn, which Beth then knitted into his 'n' hers winter warmers.
Mr Willis, who worked for Pickfords Removals for 27 years, still wears his doggy jumper into town every Saturday to do the weekly shop.

Broad peril
Millions of swarming honey bees escaped after a truck carrying crates of them turned over in California.
The state Highway Patrol said up to 12 million bees were set loose, stinging officers, firefighters and tow truck drivers trying to clear the accident.
The bees had been used in the San Joaquin Valley to pollinate crops.

Classic idea
A couple have given their children unusual names based on characters from Greek, Roman and Egyptian mythology.
Tony and Elaine Romaeo, of Leckwith Mews, Canton, Cardiff, named their first child Romeo Casanova Valentino, after the world's most famous lovers.
The 12-year-old boy has since been joined by sisters Venus Valentine, 11, Angel Aphrodite, 10, Isis Ise, three, and brother Achilles Spartacus Mars, two.

Grave matters
A 52-stone man was winched into his giant grave – with the help of a mechanical digger.
Just a solitary "good Samaritan'' attended the council-paid funeral service of 29-year-old John Christian Jeffrey, in Taunton, who had no known relatives.
It took cemetery workers more than four hours to lower Mr Jeffrey's coffin - which was more than twice the size of a typical casket - into his grave, before the service began.

Joy Division
The madam of the oldest bordello in Hamburg's tawdry St Pauli red light district says it is closing due to lack of business.
The family-run Hotel Luxor brothel is being sold to an investor and will close down for good next month, said Waltraud Mehrer.
She blamed the decline in business on easily available internet porn, the rise of call-girl services, and "noisy discos and dance clubs'' on the same street.