Bad doggy! Family's pet dog eats $1000 in cash - and but $900 is salvaged after she vomited up the remains

By INDERDEEP BAINS

Bad doggy: Tuity feasted on $1000 in cash after her owners Christy and Joe Lawrenson left it out

When an envelope stuffed full of $1000 in cash went missing, Christy and Joe Lawrenson thought someone had broken into their Florida home.
But it soon became clear that their dog, Tuity, had given herself an expensive treat.
Two weeks ago Mrs Lawrenson had left ten $100 dollar bills in the envelope for her husband to take to the bank for a car payment.
But the couple's four-year-old dog, a Labrador Retriever, chow, bulldog mix, managed to get her paws on it first and snatched it from a counter.
'My husband and I are trying to pay off my car, and so every time we save $1,000, we just take it to the bank and we just put it in the account.' she said.

Expensive treat: Christy and Joe Lawrenson's four-year-old dog Tuity ate $1000 in cash and puked up $900

But when Mr Lawrenson returned to their home in St Augustine on his lunch break, the envelope was gone.
When he looked in the living room, he saw pieces of one-hundred dollar bills scattered across the floor. The rest, including a paper clip used to pin the cash together, was in Tuity's stomach.
'I saw one $100 dollar bill almost ripped in half on the floor,' Mr Lawrenson told the St Auguistine Record. 'I found like three or four pieces around the house. I thought somebody broke in originally.'
But there was only one explanation.
When he looked in the living room, he saw pieces of one-hundred dollar bills scattered across the floor. The rest, including a paper clip used to pin the cash together, was in Tuity's stomach.

Dog's life: Christy and Joe Lawrenson had to sift through their dog's vomit to retrieve $900 of the $1000 she ate

'I saw one $100 dollar bill almost ripped in half on the floor,' Mr Lawrenson told the St Auguistine Record. 'I found like three or four pieces around the house. I thought somebody broke in originally.'
But there was only one explanation.
'She ate the bill, the envelope … everything,' Mrs Lawrenson added:

My dog ate my cash: Christy and Joe Lawrenson have written to the Department of Treasury with pictures as proof in the hope of being reimbursed for the cash lost

Mr Lawrenson decided to give Tuity some peroxide to induce vomiting so the couple were able to reassemble the shredded bills from her vomit.
They pieced and taped the notes together with the help of Joe’s mother and a friend and took it to the bank.
'It was still not real to me even though I had dug through vomit all afternoon,

source: dailymail