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You’re going to want to bookmark this one.

Dogs are man’s best friends, but they quickly become super close friends when they are worth $400 million.

The irresistible new Netflix documentary series Gunther’s Millions is about the richest dog in the world, a German shepherd named Gunther VI who inherited all of his owner’s wealth and then somehow started a cult.

His owner, a mysterious countess with no heirs, bestowed her multi-million fortune on her beloved pooch and placed him in the care of her deceased son’s close friend, an Italian pharmaceutical heir and aspiring impresario named Maurizio Mian.

Mian knew better than to let that fortune be wasted on gold-steak doggy dinners alone, so he built an entire empire with the help of his new canine boss-friend.

The official synopsis says the empire included glamorous real estate purchases, controversial social experiments, and one of the biggest tax fraud schemes of all time.

As the trailer slowly reveals, there is more to this story than meets the eye (or paw):

The doccie does well to make you feel uneasy, and not just because of the almost tragic realisation that a dog is living the life that most people can only ever dream of. Over to Mashable:

There’s an entire web of lies behind Gunther’s fortune and a weird cult happening in his estate. A bunch of women lives in Gunther’s home to “keep him company,” which is evidently a guise for men’s follies to run free. Revealing one twisted spin after the other including tax fraud, the debate as to whether or not the countess was actually real, and that there may be more than one Gunther.

Through never-before-seen footage, interviews with the women who lived with Gunther, and a tell-all from Mian, the man behind every messed up thing you see in this trailer, Gunther’s Millions promises to be a whirlwind rollercoaster of the lies behind the world’s wealthiest pet.

Gunther’s Millions premieres on Netflix on February 4. The series will consist of four hourlong episodes.

[source:mashable]