Trainee police dog Jack chewed up Angie Collins's wedding ring and swallowed
the diamond.
It took Mrs Collins two days of waiting and sieving Jack's poop before the diamond appeared.
Mrs Collins, 51, from Exmouth in Devon, said: "I thought it was futile, just give up. But the sun was shining, and there it was."
Mrs Collins, who looks after police puppies while they are being trained, had left her ring on a side table while she manicured her nails on 23 December.
"It must have winked at him," she said. "I went to the kitchen, came back and it was gone."
The ring was a mangled mess on the floor, but the diamond was nowhere to be found, despite a frantic search by Mrs Collins and husband Graham.
"My husband and I emptied the entire room bit by bit which took hours. I could only conclude that Jack had eaten it.
"The vet said because a dog's stomach is so intricate it was unlikely I would get it back," she said.
But she was undeterred.
"As a dog walker you always keep your pet's poop in a bag so I took it home and sprayed it with the hose pipe and sieved it every single day - four times a day at least.
"On Christmas Day I had three poops to deal with and it was in the third poop.
"I had almost given up, so it was the last shot."
"I have never had a dog like that," said Mrs Collins who has been walking police dogs for 18 years.
"I'm going to get [the ring] reset and insured as fast as possible."
It took Mrs Collins two days of waiting and sieving Jack's poop before the diamond appeared.
Mrs Collins, 51, from Exmouth in Devon, said: "I thought it was futile, just give up. But the sun was shining, and there it was."
Mrs Collins, who looks after police puppies while they are being trained, had left her ring on a side table while she manicured her nails on 23 December.
"It must have winked at him," she said. "I went to the kitchen, came back and it was gone."
The ring was a mangled mess on the floor, but the diamond was nowhere to be found, despite a frantic search by Mrs Collins and husband Graham.
"My husband and I emptied the entire room bit by bit which took hours. I could only conclude that Jack had eaten it.
"The vet said because a dog's stomach is so intricate it was unlikely I would get it back," she said.
But she was undeterred.
"As a dog walker you always keep your pet's poop in a bag so I took it home and sprayed it with the hose pipe and sieved it every single day - four times a day at least.
"On Christmas Day I had three poops to deal with and it was in the third poop.
"I had almost given up, so it was the last shot."
"I have never had a dog like that," said Mrs Collins who has been walking police dogs for 18 years.
"I'm going to get [the ring] reset and insured as fast as possible."
How was the ring finally recovered then? The pet dog puked it out, or............?
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