Holly is a 5-year-old dog who has been with her family since she was a puppy. She’s a pretty typical dog in most ways, but she has one very unusual obsession: money. Holly is absolutely in love with money.
Meet Holly, a New York canine who does not beg for treats, but rather, pays for them. Her bizarre obsession with paper bills began when she was just a baby, according to her owner, Casi Cook. “She was a thief, just like any puppy,” Cook said. “She used to steal stuff out of all our bags, including money, and instead of chasing her around the house we would kind of bribe her with treats. So when she had money in her mouth, we didn’t want her to eat it, so we would say, ‘Here Holly, take the treat and give me the money,’ so it clicked in her head, if she has the money, she will get treats.”
Cook is a waitress and relies on tips. Whenever she counts the night’s gratuities, Holly comes running at the first sound of change rattling. “When Holly hears us counting money, within seconds she is sitting with her head right on your lap nudging your hands until you give her a dollar,” Cook said in an email. She currently has $87 to her name, and her collection is growing every day.
Holly has her very own piggy bank to keep her money in, but she also keeps it in the living room, on the stairs, in her mom’s bed, in the kitchen, in the hallway and pretty much everywhere in the house. To show off her skills, her humans will occasionally ask her for a dollar, and she’ll search the house for one. But for the most part, she’s proactive—she knows the concept of goods and services. Cook says, “When we are at the dinner table, she will quietly walk up to one of us and just gently place a dollar on our laps and look at us with that puppy face.”
Holly still likes to play with toys, too …
… but even when she’s holding a toy, she almost always has some money with her as well. Holly is very careful with her money, though, because over the years she’s learned that if it rips, it no longer has any value, and then she can’t use it to buy her beloved cookies.
While Holly is very protective of her money and loves it more than anything, she never, ever gets mad if someone takes some from her. She’s happy to share … as long as she gets it back eventually.
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