US Treasury Refunds $500 After Dog Eats Money

The US Treasury has a soft spot for money eating dogs. The agency on Monday reimbursed Wayne Klinkel after his dog ate $500 in random bills.

Klinkel’s dog, Sundance, a golden retriever, was traveling with his family from Montana to Colorado when they made a brief stop at a highway restaurant. The family left five $100 billions and a single $1 bill in the car and Sundance decided they were worth eating.

When the family returned to the vehicle they noticed a $1 bill was sitting next to a half eaten $100 bill. The rest of the money was gone.

Sundance, a rescue from a Wyoming shelterm, will eat just about anything in sight and with the doors still locked when they returned to the car, the family knew he was the culprit.

Based on past experiences with Sundance his owner knew the bills would not fully digest. Wayne eventually retrieved quite a few fragments from the dogs feces. Wayne then pieced the bills together after thoroughly washing them. After the bills soaked for about a week Wayne taped them together, placed them in individual plastic bags and sent them off to the US Treasury.

After ten days Wayne received a receipt which acknowledged that the bills were received.

The Federal Reserve can take up to two years to get money back to owners, typically they honor those requests if at least 51 percent of a bill is present.

After months of hearing nothing from the US Treasury Department Wayne opened his mail on Monday and discovered a gold check made out for $500.

Wayne tells The Independent Record:

“I opened it and thought ‘holy s—t. I gave Sundance a pat, showed it to him and told him not to eat it.”

The only correspondence from the US Treasury were small letters typed in the bottom left which read: “MUT.CURR REFUND.”

The bank accepted the check and despite the government shutdown the money cleared Wayne’s account.

In a twist of fate the money came in handy after the family paid $250 to remove a growth from Sundance’s eye.

Wayne admits that before approaching the US treasury about his money eating dog he managed to gross out a few bank tellers.