We acquired a cheap ceramic dog. Our daughter declared it just too chintzy to even set outside. It's become a game piece. Since we live on adjoining properties we have easy access to each other's homes. I set the dog up in her home, not in a prominent place, but visible if you were to look there. It was several days later they found it and cracked up over our trick. Later we found the dog setting on our bookshelves in the front room. It's gone back and forth a dozen times over the last year or so, and is again in our possession. She's away until Thursday. Her husband to be creates metal sculptures and has given her one for the flower garden. I think I'll see if the dog would look good setting somewhere in the sculpture.