So funny story. We were discussing in our most recent game the possibility of training monkeys. A couple of us had come very close to dieing once to often. Mostly because of splitting the group. Then one of us said "Hey. I have handle animal and monkeys cost like 3 gold." We replied "You're point?" Then a 30-45 minute conversation ensued about training monkeys for the purpose of feeding us healing potions when we went unconcious. Our GM eventually just said no and we moved on but what do you guys think?
Your friend/DM seems to be wondering the same thing here
Such is life.