Couple sifts by means of canine’s poop after pooch eats $4K in money

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By Katherine Donlevy

Published
Jan. 3, 2024, 11:24 p.m. ET

You gotta do what you gotta doo doo.

A Pennsylvania couple was left with little selection however to get their fingers soiled final month after their beloved pooch devoured up $4,000 in money.

“This is Cecil. He has never done anything bad in his life,” Carrie Law wrote in an Instagram reel that has racked up greater than 500,000 shares and likes.

The pile of just lately withdrawn money, nonetheless, proved too attractive.

The sealed envelope filled with $50 and $100 payments had solely been sitting on the Law’s kitchen counter for half-hour when husband Clayton found tiny, shredded items of payments strewn throughout the ground.

“He was shouting, ‘Cecil ate $4,000!’” Carrie told The Washington Post.

“I ran in, thinking I had to have heard him wrong, but when I saw the mess, there was no doubt,” she stated. “I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Cecil had really done it.”

The couple was dumbfounded — the 7-year-old Goldendoodle was typically a well-behaved pup that had by no means gone after something on the counter, together with meals.

“He has never really done anything bad before, so we were more shocked than angry,” Clayton advised the outlet.

“We couldn’t believe it. We looked at each other and said, ‘What are we going to do?’”

While Cecil slept off his $4,000 meal, the Laws raced to name their vet, who fortunately stated the 100-pound pooch would greater than seemingly go the money with out incident.

That’s when the couple determined to salvage what they may — they’d pulled the money from their joint financial savings account to put in a fence at their Pittsburgh home, the place they’re elevating their 2-year-old son Rory.

The financial institution defined they might take the payments again that had been taped along with the complete serial numbers seen on the back and front, Carrie added. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing additionally requires that at the very least 50% of every notice is identifiable.

Fortunately, Carrie and Clayton scraped collectively about $1,500 from the torn payments that Cecil left on the ground.

“Cecil was sitting on the sofa full of $2,500, and we knew there was only one way to get that money back,” Carrie stated.

Cecil coughed up $250 that night time, however the remaining required Clayton to don a masks and gloves and observe his canine into the yard to alleviate himself.

After amassing the canine’s deposits, Clayton and Carrie sifted by means of the waste to recuperate, wash and piece collectively dozens of different shredded bits of their fortune.

“I never thought I’d be able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything,” Carrie stated.

After two extra days, they retrieved about $1,800, boosting their complete to $3,550.

As for the remaining, Carrie says she plans to make use of the scraps to make the “most expensive piece of art” to function a reminder of the disgusting story.

“We couldn’t be mad at him — he’s a very lovable dog,” she stated. “People often tell us there’s a human trapped inside our dog.”