Be on the lookout because your dog could be breaking the bank in more ways than one. A Pittsburgh couple’s dog managed to eat an envelope filled with $4,000 cash in $100 and $50 bills.
Clayton and Carrie Law were having a fence installed at their home in the Point Breeze neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the workers requested to be paid in cash. Because of this, Clayton left an envelope filled with $4,000 in $100 and $50 bills on the kitchen counter for the workers.
Clayton said he returned to the kitchen about 30 minutes later to find Cecil, the couple’s seven-year-old goldendoodle, making a meal out of the cash. “I walked back into the room and then all this cash was on the ground. He’s just like this, standing there, and I’m just like oh my gosh, he ate some of this money and was in shock. I yelled to Carrie, ‘He ate the money, he ate $4,000,'” Clayton said.
The couple started by trying to reassemble the shredded bills and managed to come up with $1,500 worth of bills with serial numbers that were intact enough to have them replaced by their bank. A couple more $100 bills were retrieved later in the evening when Cecil vomited but the rest of the money came later.
Over the next two days, the couple had to look through Cecil’s droppings and used a utility sink to wash the shreds of paper so they could be taped back together. “I never thought I’d be able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything,” Carrie said.
Fortunately, the pair was able to salvage $3,550 of the $4,000 cash and said they are going to mail the rest of the bill remnants to the U.S. Treasury Department in the hopes of recovering more of the money. Even if this doesn’t work, at least they have a fun story to tell.
“We’ve kept at least one of the torn-up bills so we can do a piece of artwork and frame it to commemorate the entire situation,” Carrie said. “Not that we’d ever forget.”
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/01/03/cecil-dog-eat-money-cash/