Bilger reports that American spending on pets is extremely high. He is surely right about spending on pets being high because, as Bilger may know, studies and statistics have shown us that Americans are spending upwards of $47,000,000,000 a year on their pets. Just as he implies with his article, Spending on our pets has gotten way out of control. Pet owners spend frivolously on their pets buying them pedicures, expensive brand name clothes, over the top procedures, etc. A pet can not even understand the concept of money or value of the things they have, they could care less. Steven Wise, an animal-rights attorney, categorized the animal kingdom into a Four Tier hierarchy of ascending Intelligence. In these categories dogs and cats fell into