An envelope on the kitchen table with 4,000 dollars (about 3,650 euros) in cash inside. For Goldendoodle “Cecil” from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this clearly looked like a tasty meal in early December. When his owners, Clayton and Carrie Law, left the room for about 30 minutes, the seven-year-old dog attacked the envelope and its contents – and ate everything except a few pieces of money.
It was a shock for the couple, as just moments before they had withdrawn money from their joint savings account to pay for the new fence. “Suddenly, Clayton yelled at me, 'Cecil is eating the $4,000!' I thought, 'This can't be true.' “I almost had a heart attack,” Carrie Law told Pittsburgh City Paper.
Carrie Law had to completely clean up the remains of money © Facebook / Carrie Law
Special type money laundering
The initial shock gave way to concern for her dog. But her vet was able to calm her down and everything was fine, given Cecil's size. You should just watch him closely. So the focus turned to money and the question of what could still be saved. And so the couple began their “$4,000 puzzle”; with the remains of money that were not eaten and also with the pieces that had already passed through Cecil once.
“It smelled so bad,” reported Carrie Law of cleaning the remains from Cecil’s stomach. After special-type money laundering, the couple attempted to glue together the destroyed $50 and $100 bills, piece by piece, with tape. They tried to find the serial numbers on both sides of the notes to ensure the bank would accept them and replace them with new notes.
The bank actually accepted most of the bills, only $450 could not be recovered. She also told Laws that these types of incidents are quite common.