(mslavick)
In these tough financial times, you have to make your money any way you can. And if that includes extricating some cash from the recently deposited canine feces, well… okay, that’s a bit gross. But that didn’t stop a man in St. Louis from doing it.
A man working for a company called — no joke — DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal was called to, you guessed it, remove some pet waste. And while going about his tasks, he noticed there was a different kind of mysterious green stuff inside a pile of pooch poop.
It was $58 in cash.
After mulling over what to do, the man ultimately opted to extricate the currency, which he then sanitized and placed into a plastic baggy. Rather than pocket the passed bills, he returned them to the client.
While the money was worse for wear following its trip through the doggy’s digestive system, the serial numbers will still intact, meaning the money could be exchanged for less-soiled bills at a bank.
Hey, at least we now know that cash isn’t going to make your dog sick.
Pet waste picker-upper finds $58 in a dog’s… well, you know [L.A. Times]
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Wouldn’t you like to know….
Gives new meaning to the phrase ‘filthy lucre”.
What breed was it…. I’d trade my dog in for the kind that craps money.
I love my dog dearly, but he is just a furry money pit.
I’d dig it out, sanitize it, and then immediately take it to the bank to exchange.
I’d spend it.
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I think if you walked in, plunked down money and said “I want different money”, they might be suspicious.
I’d just deposit it
What breed was it…. I’d trade my dog in for the kind that craps money.
I love my dog dearly, but he is just a furry money pit.
That is probably the best company name ever.
I’m wondering how they stay in business. Are there really that many people out there needed poo removed from their sidewalks? And couldn’t you just use a stick or something to put it in a baggie yourself, for free?
Some dog owners have their dogs poo in the back yard. Over the course of a month, a medium-sized dog can cover a lot of real estate with doody; since it’s outside and thus not stinking up the house, most owners don’t bother with cleaning it up or doing anything with it. (When I was a kid, our most vile punishment was digging a hole and shoveling all of the dog poo into it.)
There are totally companies that will take your money to handle this basic pet-ownership chore. Public parks and dog parks also probably hire these sorts of services.
I would think some disabled or elderly pet owners may not be able to do the *ahem* clean up themselves, so I could see how this service might be beneficial for them.
Your dad had a similar idea of punishment to mine, except instead of a hole I had a trash bag.
Yes. Rubber gloves are cheap and the bills will wash out just fine.
You can then go spend them at a store you hate.
If I were keeping it, maybe. Not to give to another person though.
Are you kidding? My wife and I used cloth diapers for three years. I’d snag that $58 while barely batting an eye.
I’m guessing you two were a hit at the office
I used to wear boxers. My coworkers were pleased when crap wasn’t hitting the floor. My boss said I can finally start feeding myself in the break room.
Make it a hundred bucks and I might pull it out with my teeth
ewww… I think you sir, have a fetish..for money & poop that is !
That…can be arranged….
Actually, while reading this, it wasn’t the fact that he picked money out of crap.
It was the fact that there is a service that picks up after your dog to begin with. Seriously? That’s…you have to wonder how much they pay the man…enough so that he can give back 58$
BTW: I taser all dogs who enter my yard. We have a fenced in yard with the gate closed. The fence is only a few feet high so dogs can and do come in and have fun with the yard ..
Tasers for the rescue!
Oh, to answer the question .. I doubt it.
you are a bad person…
sounds like the dog owners are bad people
They’re not as bad as the people who intentionally ran their dogs through our land trying to scare the deer into their lease. The second time it happened, four of the five dogs didn’t make it out. The fifth one wouldn’t have made it either, but my dad said his gun jammed.
You do know there are laws against animal cruelty? And you’re supposed to call the police and animal control instead of killing domestic creatures that don’t know any better?
The police would either laugh and not respond or take at minimum two hours to respond. The dogs had intentionally caused harm to our livestock, and their owners had been warned about releasing the dogs on our property. They flatly denied ever coming on to our property and/or releasing their dogs there even though the deercam had some nice pictures of them doing just that. The dogs may not have deserved it, but as there is no “animal control” in our area and killing humans is even less acceptable than killing dogs, they were the ones that suffered.
Hold on, can you explain if you have deer? Are they as livestock, or rehab, or are they just like my parents – they end up in the backyard? I’m interested.
With that said – anything that endangers livestock deserves a bullet. Dog, human, whatever. FWIW, a rottweiler has the the strongest bite force of any domestic dog and they have herding in their blood. I couple of them would make quick work of the neighborhood dogs.
You do know … tasering a dog does not kill them? Assumption = FAIL
Sort of like how you failed at assuming jason in boston was responding to your post instead of the one made by S?
+1
I am truly interested in the deer situation, because if he has access to a boatload of venison…
Also, I love big herding dogs. Even if they can snap my leg in 2.
So if I beat you senseless, because is doesn’t kill you, it’s not cruel?
I would support your research here.
Then again, anybody with soft-core porn as their avatar must be awesome and not at all socially fucked up, right?
tasering a dog does not always kill, yes. But tasering a human can cause perminent damage, and dogs are in general MUCH smaller beings then humans. so for you to tase a dog = FAILLLLL at human decency.
There are horses and cows in fields that sit on about 190 acres. It isn’t unusual to see several deer grazing in the fields with the livestock. Only about 10-15 acres are field while the rest is forested. There is a barn, wellshed, and a camp that is currently used as storage. All of the fields and buildings are located almost 1/4 mile into the property.
I borrowed my friend’s deercam to find out why the livestock had suddenly started tearing through fences like they weren’t there, wounding themselves pretty badly sometimes. This was probably not the second time these dogs had been set loose on our property but the fifth or sixth time at least. I can only prove that they were there twice, but they haven’t returned since, because as I understand it those were some pretty expensive dogs.
I can understand a dog or two getting lost and wandering through the property, and even knowing that these were set loose intentionally I wouldn’t have shot them. Had I been there that day, I would have tried to catch them and release them down the road 40 or 50 miles away.
There are other ways to deal with the dogs that stupid people let run wild. Its not the animals fault they were given to jerks. More unacceptable to kill humans? Sure maybe as far as the law in concerned, but in this exact case, it would have made more sense to shoot the people that did this, killing their dogs will only make them get new ones to do the same thing.
Wow. You are an evil, evil person. And I thought my granddad was a jerk just for tossing random objects in an attempt to scare things away. :
Hope somebody nails you someday for animal cruelty
I’m not even a dog lover (more of a cat person), and I think that’s totally not cool. I hope you get busted some day for animal cruelty.
You guys need to think before you type. It is not animal cruelty. Nice try though
how is it NOT cruelty, you are zapping a pup with between 25k and 900k VOLTS. that is totally uncalled for when the animal in question is not attacking or endangering you in ANY way.
Troll, right? Gotta be…
you COMPLETELY oversold yourself. Id dig through that poop for 10 bucks and a wetnap.
kudos to the guy for giving it back, but honestly he just earned himself a lifelong customer with tip if he wasn’t getting on before. Well worth giving back 60 bucks of feces encrusted money.
Yeah, can we get an Above and Beyond in here?
Good thing he didn’t Vapoorize that poo.
haha +1
Okay, don’t know that I would have given it back after cleaning it myself. Then again, I don’t do that for pay. If that guy didn’t earn himself a lifetime customer there, or failing that a $58 tip…
Poor dog, though.
This man is a saint. If this had come out of my dog, I would not even for one second judge the guy for pocketing the money if he had chosen to do so.
Yep, I’d do it. like poop won’t wash off.
Like none of you never got poop on your hands as a kid.
I mean… I might have picked up the crap, put it into a bag and later on spray the pile with a hose until the shit rinsed away…. then dry out the money.
Hmm. Would bills make it through an autoclave? Something tells me they wouldn’t.
Nonetheless, I’d take a few hours to sterilize the money in every way I know. I’d boil it in water, I’d soak it in alcohol, I’d run it through a clothes washer and a dishwasher … yeah, I’d clean it pretty well. But the answer is yes.
Also, I’d only handle it with latex gloves.
it seems you have no idea what kind of nasties are already on a normal dollar bill, do you?
Shush. I’d like to pretend that if I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.
… is there any reason they wouldn’t? US currency is printed on a cotton/ linen blend, not plain old paper.
Hose down the steaming pile, pick up the bills with a glove or bag, run it thru the washer. what’s the problem?
I suppose now he’s looking to have that money laundered…
Sure I would. I’d use the same trick as picking up dog poop by hand — put hand inside plastic bag, pick through poop using bag as glove, then turn bag inside out, leaving poop-covered money inside bag and clean side of bag on the outside. No need to touch the poop with bare hands.
Then I’d take the money home and wear gloves to wash it in hot water and soap.
Maybe it’s just that I’ve worked in bio labs, but as long as I can wear gloves and breathe through my mouth if it stinks, I’m cool with pretty much anything.
That’s a pretty crappy job and I bet his customers give him all kinds of shit.
My shihtzu pooped a dime or two and a buddy of mines dog pooped a 20
Hell, I will do it for $5.8
I think I would follow that dog around for a while. Just in case.
for $58 i’d pick it out of human poop.
Being a father of 2 young boys and a dog owner, I probably have some amount of poop on me at any given time. So to do what I already do, but get paid $58 for it? No problem.
This gives new meaning to the term “hot off the press”…
The dog was just glad it was not $58.00 in change.
The dog’s mouth was writing checks his body couldn’t cash – WRONG.
I get paid less than that every day for the privilege of going overseas and having to shovel hills of human excrement on occasion, yet I wouldn’t.
For some reason I was imagining a single $58 bill.
Heck, I had to dig through my kid’s nasty diaper poop to find the dime he swallowed, to make sure it passed. Since I was already there, I figured, ‘what the heck’. Washed it, rinsed in alcohol, and is now stored in a ziploc bag. I can spring it on him during his first date, or prom night, or something to maximize the embarrassment.
You are an evil parent….I like you.
Honestly? Yea, I would. It would be spent just as fast as I found it…or deposited into the bank via ATM.
Gloves anyone?
OMG seriously? Is really the kind of level / story this blog is sinking to? No wonder you are losing readers and sponsors.
In fact this is totally a non story because the guy didn’t take the money, he gave it back, so the value of the money was totally irrelevant.
Chris in case you weren’t clear, this is really a story for your blog or Twitter feed nobody follows, not a Consumerist posting. Thanks.
That’s why god invented plastic gloves (heavy duty) and clothes pins. I’d do it, but you bet I’d run it through the gentle wash cycle and take it to the bank in a plastic zip-lock bag (and warn the teller).
Hey, I’ve changed cloth diapers for all three of my kids. Dog doo, no problem!