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| Dog swallows diamond from £18,000 heirloom ring | |
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| A woman had the diamond from her £18,000 ring eaten by a trainee police dog - but recovered it two days later, on Christmas Day. | |
| Jack chewed up Angie Collins's wedding ring and swallowed the diamond. | Jack chewed up Angie Collins's wedding ring and swallowed the diamond. |
| It took Mrs Collins, who looks after police puppies being trained, two days of waiting and sieving Jack's faeces before the diamond appeared. | It took Mrs Collins, who looks after police puppies being trained, two days of waiting and sieving Jack's faeces before the diamond appeared. |
| Mrs Collins, 51, from Exmouth in Devon, said: "I thought it was futile. But the sun was shining, and there it was." | Mrs Collins, 51, from Exmouth in Devon, said: "I thought it was futile. But the sun was shining, and there it was." |
| She had left her ring, a family heirloom, on a side table on 23 December. | |
| Mangled mess | Mangled mess |
| "It must have winked at him," she said. "I went to the kitchen, came back and it was gone." | "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. | 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," she said. | "My husband and I emptied the entire room bit by bit which took hours. I could only conclude that Jack had eaten it," she said. |
| "The vet said because a dog's stomach is so intricate it was unlikely I would get it back." | "The vet said because a dog's stomach is so intricate it was unlikely I would get it back." |
| But she was undeterred. | 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, Mrs Collins said. | "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, Mrs Collins said. |
| She said she found the ring in the the third lot of dog mess she looked through on Christmas Day. | She said she found the ring in the the third lot of dog mess she looked through on Christmas Day. |
| "I had almost given up, so it was the last shot," said Mrs Collins who has been walking police dogs for 18 years. | "I had almost given up, so it was the last shot," said Mrs Collins who has been walking police dogs for 18 years. |
| "I have never had a dog like that. I'm going to get [the ring] reset and insured as fast as possible." | |