These are all excellent reasons to get a Dog. We have a cat but she sleeps in the garage - mainly because we are avoiding the coyotes. She would actually prefer to be outside. The dogs sleep in the house with the rest of the pack - and never wake me up. They get up when they hear the alarm.

This fountain looks to me like something else to have to keep clean.....

"A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" Churchill