Give up?? A digital video camera!! I know a lot of people get video cameras when they have children, but we bought one to film the dogs. What a riot it is to watch them on our big screen tv. I'm so glad we have them--what would we do otherwise??
I'm sure everyone will appreciate the dvds they all get of our dogs sleeping, playing, eating, and otherwise just being themselves

One thing I do want to do with it, is set it up in their room when I go somewhere--I am dying to know what they do when we're gone!!