When I was younger, one of my friends had a parrot that they kept inheriting. If memory serves me, the bird was originally acquired by by friend’s great grandfather. They didn’t know how old the parrot was, but someone in the family estimated it at about 135 years.
The rule for pets should be nothing that is stronger than me or will outlive me.
We had a parrot that we ‘inherited’ from a neighbor, who inherited it from another neighbor, who had raised it from the egg.
We really didn’t know how old it was, but assumed it to be 50+ when it died.................
I was driving through my neighborhood a few years ago when I noticed a small commotion in an older gentleman’s backyard. Several people had stopped to see what was going on and curiosity got the best of me, so I pulled over, too. When I asked what was going on, someone told me the owner’s rather large tortoise had escaped his pen (again). The owner and one of his friend didn’t have much trouble catching the wayward tortoise, but he was so big, they had to bring him back to the enclosure in a wheelbarrow.
I helped them lift the tortoise out of the wheelbarrow and put him back in the pen. Both the owner and his wife were in their 70s, and it was obvious the tortoise would outlive both of them. Someone else told me the couple have custody of the tortoise arranged through the next two generations of the family, since he’ll be around long after they’re gone, and yes, they’ve set aside money to help cover their pet’s long-term (and I do mean long-term) care.