The dog days are finally over for a couple in Pennsylvania.
Clayton and Carrie Law had to retrieve $4,000 in bills from their dog Cecil’s feces last month after the pup decided to eat an envelope of money they left on the kitchen counter.
The ordeal began when Clayton walked into their drawing standing over a pile of “mutilated money” shortly after leaving the money in their kitchen, he told TODAY. He was also woken up by Cecil convulsing in the middle of the night, while the 7-year-old dog struggled after eating into the family’s home improvement budget.
As the couple told DANAS, they left their money envelope on the counter after taking it out to invest in a new fence. But it didn’t last long.
“When you hear that, you just react right away, so I jumped out of bed and I was just making sure he didn’t throw up anywhere. It’s not great,” Clayton said of Cecil choking. “Then I went to get it…and I realized, ‘There’s a lot of half-eaten $100 bills and $50 bills here.'”
Carrie called the dog’s decision “pretty shocking,” because jumping on the counter was never “interesting” for the 100-pound pup. “It was so out of the ordinary it just didn’t seem real,” Clayton added.
According to CBS affiliate KDKA, the couple believed their dog had swallowed a total of about $2,000 in bills.
Then he began the task of sifting through Cecil’s bodily waste, while Clayton and Carrie would pull out scraps of bills, wash them repeatedly, and begin putting them together like a puzzle. To get their money exchanged at the bank, the couple had to tip more than 50% of each note – and they were pretty close to the margin, getting a refund of $3,550.
“They said it actually happens a lot because the money just picks up so much smell, especially if it’s used in the food industry,” Carrie told TODAY about the bank. “I guess the dogs picked up on it – they have such a good sense of smell – and something about it just drove him crazy.”
The process of recovering the bills meant looking at their serial numbers, Carrie told KDKA, because the two would recover the money “from something [Cecil] left in the yard” and add the numbers.
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While the fence project is now on a bit of a hiatus, the couple still decided to make some art out of the leftover parts of Cecil’s eaten bills. Additionally, footage of the ordeal has since gone viral on social media, showing Carrie and Clayton washing the mangled bills and regluing them.
As they noted in the video, Cecil “never did anything wrong in his life.”
“Finally ready to talk about last week 💩💸🐾,” Carrie captioned the video. “The bank assured us that this happens all the time.”
“We’re just happy that the story is making people laugh,” Carrie told TODAY. “I think a lot of people can relate to this because we’ve all had a pet or a child that has done something like this in one way or another and you just can’t be mad at them. You just have to love them anyway.”
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