Dog Eats Some Major Bling
One of our walkers passed this story on to us via NBC Local News. If anyone else finds any bizarre, comic, or otherwise entertaining news stories about dogs (or cats) doing awesome (or not so awesome) things, feel free to send me an email at tara@timeforawalk.com.
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George Kaufmann takes his golden retriever to work at Robert Bernard Jewelers every day. That proved problematic one day in January when a diamond dealer took in a rock for the jewelers to inspect. As soon as the dealer pulled out the diamond, he dropped it.
“I went to pick up the diamond, it wasn’t there anymore,” said Kaufmann, who co-owns the business. ”I looked around and I didn’t see it. I grabbed his head, opened his mouth, looked inside and nothing there and I felt him swallow.”
Kaufmann scrambled to figure out how to get the $20,000 rock out of Soli’s stomach. A veterinarian assured Kaufman it would pass naturally, which meant checking every day.
“It wasn’t that pleasant,” Kaufman said. ”I had to go through it, which was not that nice. My cousin, who’s a dentist, he thought it was really funny. He brought me a box of rubber gloves.”
And it didn’t come easy. Kaufmann endured three days of sifting before finding the diamond in the roughage.
“It was like hitting paydirt, like in the gold rush,” Kaufman said
This bizarre story gained international attention. The National Enquirer picked it up, and on Monday, the BBC called for a live interview.
Just going to the local bank is an adventure for Kaufman, now.
“Somebody said, ‘Oh this is the dog that ate the diamond,” Kaufman said. “So he’s getting to be more well-known.”
Kaufman said he opted not to buy the diamond but return it instead — a decision he insisted had nothing to do with how he finally got his hands on it.
