Our plan to get a Christmas tree this year started a few months ago but to save you the long story, here is the short one... A few years ago, we were thinking of getting a 2nd dog to keep our current dog, Sierra, company while we were at work during the day. A friend of ours had used Lydia Hiby http://www.lydiahiby.com/ to "communicate" with her horse. We decided to spend the $40 to give this a shot and have her talk to Sierra and see if Sierra wanted a dog. The deal is, you send her $40 and call her a week later to see what your animal has to say.