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A friend commented recently that she hadn’t seen me out walking very much with The Mighty Shmooie. I told her, at thirteen and a half, Shmooie had slowed down a lot and, frequently, didn’t want to walk. She asked the question that usually accompanies such information, “Will you get another dog when he’s gone?”

The answer to that is, “Not for awhile anyway.” We already have two other dogs on the property, and I plan on doing a lot of traveling which makes having a pet problematic.

I said that before I saw an article that definitely got my attention. An Ohio company is selling a robot dog that c...