Three is/are enough?

grammatical-number verb-agreement numbers

I got another dog because apparently three [dogs] are not enough. dogs is implied. I would write this.

OR

I got another dog because apparently three is not enough. I might say this.

English is full of ellipses.

examples of ellipses

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