“His dog died and he took a week off to morn”
Anyone that has known the love of a good dog should cut him some slack on that argument. My wife cried two days after our last dog died. She would understand.
I have to agree with the other opinion on this one ... There is something wrong with the OTT affection Mark projects over his pets - it’s not masculine, and it comes across as childish if not bizarre. I’ve lost a dog too - and like everything else, it’s life. I find that people who treat animals as if they were equal to human beings, even superior to human beings, are rather creepy.