Thanks for all the recent posts. I never imagined the response on a dog named topic but it's good to see that people love their pets. After I literally spent many thousands of dollars to keep a Golden Retriever alive dying of cancer. Afterwards, I found others do the same. They become your family and you'd do the same thing for a family member. The 7x rule sucks.
Get a parrot, you can pass them down to your kids.