this is... my knick knack/jewellery box

This is very late!
Hmmm, can anybody see a common theme? Lots of animals in there. They don't all live in here, most of them have corresponding jackets that they hang out on.

I have a lovely story I would like to share with you about the black/red circle brooch at the front. One night I was working the bar at MoVida and was serving a mad frenchman and his wife. I am quite mad myself, so the frenchman and I got along like a house on fire. They were at the bar for a good few hours, they enjoyed themselves. Anyway the next night, Samuel and I were out to dinner, walking up bourke street, when alas I saw the crazy frenchman. Being my brash obnoxious self, I called out "hey, you're the crazy frenchman!" He recognised me said hello and then said "I like your style, I want you to have something to remember me by." Reaching into his jacket, I was quietly shitting myself thinking he was going to pull out a gun, when he pulled the above brooch off his jumper and gave it to me. He was a jeweller and had made it himself!
I must say, for the rest of the night and still to this day I felt extra special that a stranger saw a little something in me.