Remember last week, when we brought you the saga of Kotaku reader Greg, whose dog Oscar somehow managed to purchase 5,000 Xbox LIVE points for his owner while chewing on the console's controller?

Well, today brought about an official response from Microsoft on the matter. "People spend tens of billions of dollars on their pets every year," they note, "but it's pretty unusual for your pet to return the favor (except in love and tail wagging of course)."

Though Greg got over the initial shock and went on to spend the points and figuring this was the perfect excuse to buy a new black 360 controller, all with a glass-half-full attitude, Microsoft is reaching out to the human/canine 360 tandem. Not only are they refunding the points spent, but they're providing extra ("for good measure"), another Xbox 360 controller, and even a LIVE subscription for Oscar.

"We also created a gamertag for Oscar so that he doesn't feel left out anymore!" they noted.

As I said before, perhaps this really does prove that dog is man's best friend.