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Check it out, Treasury replaces US$500 dog ate

Source: Agencies | October 5, 2013, Saturday |

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A MAN in Montana in the United States who pieced together the remnants of five US$100 bills eaten by his dog last year is sporting a US$500 check he received this week from the US Department of the Treasury to replace the digested funds.

Wayne Klinkel said his dog Sundance, a golden retriever, sniffed the wad of bills out of a car cubby space while waiting for Klinkel and his wife to return from lunch, and made the currency his lunch.

“He’s been notorious for eating paper products,” said Klinkel, a graphic designer from Helena. “I knew right away what had happened.”

Klinkel rescued Sundance as a puppy from a shelter 12 years ago and the dog later lost his left eye to surgery.

For days after the December incident, Klinkel followed Sundance, collecting his droppings in a plastic bag, he said.

Klinkel kept the bag of doggy mess frozen in the cold outside his house before retrieving the soiled cash by thawing the droppings in a bucket of soapy water.

Using a mining screen and hose, he separated the US$100 bill pieces, then washed and assembled the tiny paper fragments and sent them to the US Department of Treasury’s Mutilated Currency Division in April.

On Monday, Klinkel received a crisp US$500 check.

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