A hungry canine enjoyed what is probably the most expensive meal in his (and his owners’) life: $4,000 in cash. (Watch the video below.)
The goldendoodle from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, named Cecil has gone viral after he snacked on an envelope that contained money which was set aside by his owners to pay the contractor for installing a fence.
“I couldn’t believe it,” the dog’s owner Clayton Law said. “It was so out of character, he normally wouldn’t eat food off a coffee table. I was in shock because it wasn’t like him to do something like that.”
Cecil, the dog that ate $4,000. Credit: ooolalaw/Instagram.
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“He had eaten about half of the money and ripped up the other half.”
Clayton looked online to see “what they can do if a dog eats money”, and the results said that mutilated currency can be mailed or dropped off to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Washington, D.C., office.
However, the standard claims can take from six months to three years, so instead of waiting, Clayton decided to call their local bank to see if they could deposit damaged currency. According to the bank, damaged currency occurs quite frequently and they suggested waiting until Cecil expelled all the cash.
The remnants of the $4,000 meal. Credit: ooolalaw/Instagram.
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Retrieving their $4000
And thus Clayton, along with his partner Carrie, slowly pieced together most of the shredded bills after a smelly search of Cecil’s droppings and vomit over the next couple of days. They made sure that they scrubbed the bills thoroughly.
“It smelled so bad,” Carrie Law said.
Over the next few days, the couple sorted through all of Cecil’s droppings and vomit. Credit: ooolalaw/Instagram.
But the couple soldiered on ($4,000 is a lot of money!) The couple spent hours locating the serial numbers on both sides of the bill and attempted to tape together the destroyed bills bit by bit to ensure that the banks would accept them.
The banks accepted most of the notes and the couple managed to recover all but $450.
The couple has turned the remaining scraps that the bank wouldn’t accept into their ‘most expensive piece of art’.
The couple managed to recover all but $450. Credit: ooolalaw/Instagram.
“Originally we were mad, but we now laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole situation,” Clayton said. “When Carrie posted the video on Instagram, we couldn’t believe the responses we got.”
Going viral
“We thought that only a few friends would see and engage with it. But since we posted the video on December 14, the video has received over 196,000 likes.”
“The whole reception we got from the video has been completely nuts,” Carrie said.
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