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If the ages of dogs and cats don't increase accordingly, the smart money would be on domesticating longer lived species of pets. e.g. Tortoises live up to 2 centuries.

I'm only in my forties and I've buried 5 pet cats already! I'm not sure I could live to 130 and go through the trauma of outliving quite a significant number more.

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More likely would be parrots, which can in some circumstances outlive humans, and are much more intelligent and social than tortoises. Unfortunately most birds are fundamentally fractured in their braincases and they are insane uncontrollable maniacs. They act like they are controlled by a twitch stream.

https://np.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/42vlvs/ne...

"A side note, I am fully convinced that ALL cockatoos are insane. They are fun to own, they are adorable to watch, but deep inside that tiny feathered skull is a scratched, perpetually skipping warped record playing the soundtrack to Silent Hill backwards. If you could experience the brain of a cockatoo first hand, you would probably feel like you had dropped 1,000 hits of premium acid and boarded the scariest roller coaster ever imagined. I love each and every one I have ever met, but they are ALL insane."

or just make your dog immortal.

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