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From National Jeweler Magazine, electronic addition (today):
Rockville, Md.--A dog with a nose for fine stones has turned out to be a real publicity hound after swallowing a diamond worth $20,000 at a Maryland jewelry store.
According to news reports that entertained readers from Washington D.C.''s beltway clear to Australia, a golden retriever named Soli recently gobbled up the 3-carat-plus stone after a diamond dealer fumbled the gem onto the floor of Robert Bernard Jewelers in Rockville, Md.
Store co-owners Robert Rosin and George Kaufmann immediately called a vet, who could only offer them one piece of advice: they had no choice but to wait for Mother Nature to take her course. For three days, the jewelers'' business revolved around that of the dog.
"It was not pleasant," Kaufmann said, according to an Associated Press report. "I followed him. I had to pick up his stuff. I went through the things. I can understand what it was like in the old Gold Rush because I felt like I had just hit pay dirt."
Once retrieved, the gem was returned to the dealer.
For a YouTube clip featuring the diamond-eating pooch, click here
Rockville, Md.--A dog with a nose for fine stones has turned out to be a real publicity hound after swallowing a diamond worth $20,000 at a Maryland jewelry store.
According to news reports that entertained readers from Washington D.C.''s beltway clear to Australia, a golden retriever named Soli recently gobbled up the 3-carat-plus stone after a diamond dealer fumbled the gem onto the floor of Robert Bernard Jewelers in Rockville, Md.
Store co-owners Robert Rosin and George Kaufmann immediately called a vet, who could only offer them one piece of advice: they had no choice but to wait for Mother Nature to take her course. For three days, the jewelers'' business revolved around that of the dog.
"It was not pleasant," Kaufmann said, according to an Associated Press report. "I followed him. I had to pick up his stuff. I went through the things. I can understand what it was like in the old Gold Rush because I felt like I had just hit pay dirt."
Once retrieved, the gem was returned to the dealer.
For a YouTube clip featuring the diamond-eating pooch, click here
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