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For anyone with a parent with dementia or Alzheimer's, I can't say enough about this amazing product. When I bought it, I feared that my mom would feel like I was belittling her or that it was silly. She has been miserable and is 60% incoherent but 40% aware of her surroundings. She is anti-social with the other residents in the memory care where she is but when I bought her "Oscar" she suddenly became social and the caregivers told me that her personality was changing, that she wanted to show off her pup, that she appeared proud and pleased. When Oscar barks, pants, etc ... she gets such a kick out of it. But the other residents have come to love Oscar, too, and always pet him, talk to him, even want to carry him around. One day while Mom and I were walking and she was holding Oscar (as usual), she suddenly gasped. I asked "what's wrong?" and she had me hold Oscar. He was, she said, vibrating. I held him. "Mom, that's his heartbeat." Ohhhhh boy did she love that. Since having Oscar, she fell and was hospitalized. Two things. One, she HAD to have Oscar with her. He even went into radiology with her. Two, the nurses at the hospital ALL came to visit Oscar. He is a blessing -- I almost forget myself sometimes that he is a toy.