Dog eats money, recovered from dog piles in yard

Maybe dogs can eat homework.

Pepper, an 8-year-old black Labrador-German shorthair belonging to Debbie Hulleman from Minnesota, loves to chew things. When she left Pepper with her mother, he got into a purse and ate $750 from an envelope.

Hulleman’s mother thought she had recovered all of the cash from what Pepper spit out, but when Hulleman returned and started cleaning up the dog piles in the yard, she noticed an undigested $50 bill sticking out.

Sorting through the remaining piles of poop netted more bills. In all they were able to recover $400 from Pepper’s impromptu snack and droppings. After soaking, straining, and rinsing, they could trade in most of it for fresh money at the bank.

One $100 bill is lost forever because it takes three-fourths of the bill and they were only able to recover half.

This gives new meaning to the term “money laundering.”

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Comments

[doggy mama]

Oh my gosh, this is actually pretty funny (since the doggy doesn't seem to habe been hurt at all). Who knew you could swallow a bill whole!? There are going to be some unsuspecting people handling those once-poop-covered bills in the near future!! Hope they're dog lovers!

[schnoodlepooh]

eeeewwwwwww

[Fuzzy Logic]

Um..

Ew...

[bunny]

poor money! ; )

[Matt]

I'd hate to be that banker. Luckily I won't have to worry about my dogs eating $100 bills..there is never that much lying around.

[Lonie Polony]

You need to get the plasticky Monopoly money we have here. I'm sure it would survive the trip better than paper.

I once found a strange-looking pooh in my backyard. On closer inspection it was my missing pair of pantyhose that had made it safely through my dog's bowels...

[teetotaled]

hehe naughty puppy!

[jackie]

oh my goddess...i think i would have sent for the guy that probed bush's ass and had him go after the rest...

[stacy]

Well, I guess I might have done the same thing for that much money, but it sure would have been tempting to write it off. Would home owners insurance cover it?

[Simply Jenn]

Ha, ha. Money laundering. I think I'll stick with a good old fashioned bank.

[Coll]

hehehe.. this is so funny. It is truly amazing what a dog will decide to eat. Would you believe that, a long time ago.. our dog did actually eat a portion of my son's essay for school. That was not a good day. :-)

[AuthorMomWithDogs]

LOL! Reminds me of an episode where Magic ran off with Andrew's wallet. Most of the goods were recovered -- before being recycled... ;)

I've nominated you for a few awards.

[George Roach]

Believe it or not, I have been in nearly the same situation. When we first got Max and Erma, two six week old Beagle puppies, I never would have thought that Max's penchant for chewing would end up with me taking partially eaten bills to the bank (no Max didn't actually eat any contents of my billfold, which he found on the living room floor, so I didn't have to do the poop thing). It even prompted me to switch banks, when my bank of interest, at the time did not seem to know the true rules for replacing money. I had to send the torn money to the nearest Federal reserve Bank to get it replaced. I then replaced my bank with a credit union. Besides eating some money (not nearly as much as in the story) I also had to replace some charge cards that had teeth prints which prevented them from being swiped and/or read.

[threecollie]

Talk about filthy lucre!

[Cynthia Blue]

Oh my gosh.. ewwww doesn't even cover it. LOL.