This thread is nuts.
We had a cockatiel that lived nearly 20 years. We also had a lovebird that lived twenty-some years (I forget exactly how many, although my wife knows). If we'd had it banded with its birth date, it could have gone into the book of world records.
We had a water dragon (similar to an iguana) that was maybe eight inches long when we got it. It ate little grasshoppers. By the time we got rid of it, "Leroy" was nearly three feet long, had laid some eggs so we had to rename it, needed to be fed live baby rats, and was the largest female water dragon the zoo had ever seen.
Why can't we just stick with dogs?