I've been doing amigurumi animals for a couple of years now.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=85520&id=680942787
There's my Facebook album of some of the things I've done. I've got a pattern for a horse (fits a bunch of songs, especially if you make him dead and blue for having fallen through the ice), a goldfish, a mermaid, and I'm pretty sure I can alter the dog pattern I have to make it fit "'round my leg". :)
And, just to stay on topic: I heart Alan Doyle. Hard. :-)
"Half an hour of sunshine is worth a bit of rain..."