Dog Eats $4,000 In Cash And Makes Owners Dig Through His Vomit And Poop To Recover It
UPI - Clayton Law said he and his wife, Carrie, were having a fence installed at their home in the Point Breeze neighborhood, and the workers requested to be paid in cash, so he left an envelope filled with $4,000 in $100 and $50 bills on the kitchen counter.
Law said he returned to the kitchen about 30 minutes later to find Cecil, the couple's 7-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,'" Law told KDKA-TV.
The couple set about trying to reassemble the shredded bills, and came 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 involved a lot of waiting -- and a whole lot of very dirty work.
The couple sifted through Cecil's droppings for the next two days and used a utility sink to wash the shreds of paper so they could be taped back together.
In the end, the couple were able to salvage $3,550.
It's always funny to see stories like this with innocent dogs doing exactly what they are expected to do. Eat inanimate objects, cause a ruckus etc. It's also one of those things that no matter how long you've had a dog people still forget shit can happen ... their animals. And even more so, people who aren't familiar with dogs, or have owned a dog don't have a clue how leaving things out can backfire. For example when my Dad was dating my Mom there was a Christening in the family for one of my cousins. My Dad's job was to pick up the cake from the bakery, drop it at home for the party and then head to the church. He thought nothing of leaving the cake on the kitchen table. When everyone got back from the church, there was more cake on the walls and the floor than there was in the box. Lesson learned. Absolutely no issue with the dog eating the money, that's what they do.
On the other hand ...
An opportunity of a #healthydebate is here. If you are the fence guy, should you take it the $3,550 from these people and call it even? Is knowing that they didn't make up this tough break that could have happened to anyone (with a dog) enough to say just waive the rest of the money? If you are the fence guy don't you think down the road you'll need someone to throw you a break like this, or karma to be on your side at some point and you can look back to this point and know this was the one that earned you it?
I totally get that everyone has to earn a living, and there's profits and loss, and no one should work for free, but if i know anything about home repair ... there is 1000000000% a markup. These contractors much like casinos in Vegas ... ain't going out of business anytime soon.