# My dog ate the money! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040 "2010-11-09T15:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/1 "2010-11-09T15:21:40Z")
[Paper-eating pooch gobbles soccer club’s cash](http://www.king5.com/news/local/Cosmo-the-paper-eating-pooch-gobbles-up-clubs--106915983.html) > [@](#): > > SEATTLE – Bill Fry couldn’t believe his good fortune-waking up to a crisp $50 bill on his deck. But that joy turned to panic when he discovered that found money came from an empty envelope on his dresser. > > Fry is the president of the West Seattle Soccer Club. The envelope contained $1,500 from soccer fundraising. > > \ > > All told, Cosmo ate $300 in cash and $900 worth of checks. Fry says he will make good on all the losses, but is asking soccer parents who paid by check to send a replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/2 "2010-11-09T15:41:13Z")
OK this guy collects money from a fund raiser and now that money is gone. The dog ate it??? Yeah right I believe that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/3 "2010-11-09T17:18:18Z")
And I thought my late lamented dog had expensive taste. The worst she ever did was to eat most of a $20 bill once. In grade school I had a teacher who said that “The dog ate my homework” wouldn’t work on her because she knew that dogs don’t eat paper. I think she must never have had a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/4 "2010-11-09T17:47:56Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > OK this guy collects money from a fund raiser and now that money is gone. > > The dog ate it??? Yeah right I believe that. 🙂 The dude says he is taking responsibility for the loss. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/5 "2010-11-09T17:50:16Z")
> [@Amblydoper](#): > > The dude says he is taking responsibility for the loss. Which means he’s “laundering” the money Cosmo ate? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/6 "2010-11-09T20:38:26Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Which means he’s “laundering” the money Cosmo ate? I’d hope that he’ll wash it after it comes out of Cosmo. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/7 "2010-11-09T21:19:49Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > And I thought my late lamented dog had expensive taste. The worst she ever did was to eat most of a $20 bill once. In grade school I had a teacher who said that “The dog ate my homework” wouldn’t work on her because she knew that dogs don’t eat paper. I think she must never have had a dog. Ha. My dog just ate the box a roll of aluminum foil came in. Left the foil and the metal blade thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/8 "2010-11-10T03:26:13Z")
There was a show on Animal Planet or some such in which a dog had done exactly that. They rushed the dog to the vet and they made the dog throw up (apomorphine I think), and recovered pretty much everything. So the story is pretty believable. Dogs’ll eat cat shit, and money is even dirtier than that (just kidding, but it IS filthy), so hey, who knows! ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/9 "2010-11-10T05:51:29Z")
My dogs are attempting to eat my entire house so I have no trouble believing they’d eat money. Little bastards ate my favorite fly swatter. It was broken in. ☹ We make sure we keep money and important documents out of their reach because we have caught them eating paper products before. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/10 "2010-11-10T06:01:13Z")
I’ve learned the hard way to keep money of any surface the dogs can reach. They can’t resist it for some reason. Money, the kleenex box, and its contents are better than dog treats to them. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/11 "2010-11-10T06:13:12Z")
I always used to wonder what it was about their poops that made it so they didn’t have to wipe after taking a crap. Now I know that their crap has its own TP built in. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-ate-the-money/560040/12 "2010-11-10T13:32:24Z")
“Show me the money! SHOW ME THE… uh, no, Cosmo… please don’t…”