You gotta do what you gotta doo doo.
A Pennsylvania couple was left with little choice but to get their hands dirty last month after their beloved pooch gobbled up $4,000 in cash.
“This is Cecil. He has never done anything bad in his life,” Carrie Law wrote in an Instagram reel that has racked up more than 500,000 shares and likes.
The pile of recently withdrawn cash, however, proved too enticing.
The sealed envelope full of $50 and $100 bills had only been sitting on the Law’s kitchen counter for 30 minutes when husband Clayton discovered tiny, shredded pieces of bills strewn across the floor.
“He was shouting, ‘Cecil ate $4,000!’” Carrie told The Washington Post.
“I ran in, thinking I had to have heard him wrong, but when I saw the mess, there was no doubt,” she said. “I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Cecil had really done it.”
The couple was dumbfounded — the 7-year-old Goldendoodle was generally a well-behaved pup that had never gone after anything on the counter, including food.
“He has never really done anything bad before, so we were more shocked than angry,” Clayton told the outlet.
“We couldn’t believe it. We looked at each other and said, ‘What are we going to do?’”
While Cecil slept off his $4,000 meal, the Laws raced to call their vet, who luckily said the 100-pound pooch would more than likely pass the cash without incident.
That’s when the couple decided to salvage what they could — they had pulled the money from their joint savings account to install a fence at their Pittsburgh home, where they are raising their 2-year-old son Rory.
The bank explained they would take the bills back that had been taped together with the full serial numbers visible on the front and back, Carrie added. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing also requires that at least 50% of each note is identifiable.
Fortunately, Carrie and Clayton scraped together about $1,500 from the torn bills that Cecil left on the floor.
“Cecil was sitting on the sofa full of $2,500, and we knew there was only one way to get that money back,” Carrie said.
Cecil coughed up $250 that night, but the rest required Clayton to don a mask and gloves and follow his canine into the backyard to relieve himself.
After collecting the dog’s deposits, Clayton and Carrie sifted through the waste to recover, wash and piece together dozens of other shredded bits of their fortune.
“I never thought I’d be able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything,” Carrie said.
After two more days, they retrieved about $1,800, boosting their total to $3,550.
As for the rest, Carrie says she plans to use the scraps to make the “most expensive piece of art” to serve as a reminder of the disgusting tale.
“We couldn’t be mad at him — he’s a very lovable dog,” she said. “People often tell us there’s a human trapped inside our dog.”