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Dog Shocks Family By Chowing Down on $4K In Cash
By Gretchen Eichenberg Fox News
A Pennsylvania couple’s home improvement funds nearly went to the dogs when their pup made a snack out of a large sum of cash they'd pulled out to pay for the job. "It was shredded all over the room," Carrie Law of Pittsburgh told Fox News Digital about the money. "There was one area that was pretty decently covered in bills, some that had lit- tle puncture marks from him biting into it," she said of their dog. "And a lot of it was missing, so we kind of figured
out that he had probably swal- lowed a good chunk of this money."
Cecil, a 7-year- old Goldendoodle, had never done anything like this before, Law said.
"That’s why it was kind of shocking," Law said.
"He is just such a goofy dog and such a sweetie. He's 100 pounds and he's kind of a lap dog. He loves leaning on people and [getting] belly scratches. A lot of people describe him as having like a human inside of him."
The couple had
just taken $4,000 out of their bank account — and it had been sitting on their kitchen counter for about 30 minutes.
"We were plan- ning on paying for a landscaping project in cash," Law said.
"I was working at the other end of the house and all of a sudden I hear [my hus- band] Clayton yelling that Cecil has eaten the money. It just did- n't even register because he's never done any- thing remotely like that in his life," she said.
"It was not mak- ing sense — but it
was obvious what happened."
Law said Cecil just stood there looking at them — and did not seem to be fazed at all.
"We called the vet just to see what they recom- mended," Law said.
They said, ‘You know, he's a big dog, he's 100 pounds, so as long as he's act- ing normally and going to the bath- room normally and eating and stuff — he should be fine.’"
Cecil, Law said, spent the after- noon playing, napping and watching TV — with a belly full of thousands of dol- lars.
In the meantime, she decided to call the bank.
"I said, ‘You’re going to think I'm crazy, but this is what happened, so what do we do?’" Law said.
"They were really nice about it and said if we could
tape bills together and if they had the majority of the left and right seri- al number[s] pres- ent, they would be able to replace those bills. So,
we taped up the stuff that had just been shredded on the floor."
But in the middle of the night — the Laws got some more of their money back.
"I guess it was about 2 a.m. and we heard that tell- tale sign that your dog is going to get sick in the middle of the night," Law said.
"We noticed [he vomited] a lot of bills — and so we decided it was worth cleaning this off and drying it to see what we could get back."
It turned out to be a significant amount — and the bills were in pretty good shape despite every- thing, Law said.
"We decided it was probably worth following him around the yard and picking up whatever he
deposited. But I let my husband do that part," she said.
The unusual col- lection process took about three days, she said. "We were collect- ing what he was dropping and then also trying to put it together," Law said.
"It was just such a ridiculous puz- zle because you have some of the pieces and you don't know if some of the pieces are going to be coming
out in a couple of hours or if those pieces are just gone."
So far, the Laws said they've recouped around $3,500 from the bank.
"I just brought it in a plastic baggie and I was very clear about what had happened to that money in case anybody was going to freak out about touching it," Law said.
"They replaced those bills right away and that was great."
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