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Dog had missing diamond all along
Published March 21, 2009
It has been said that a diamond is a girl’s best friend and a dog is a man’s best friend.
However, a newly acquired 8-week-old black-and-tan miniature Chihuahua would prove to be a Boaz couple’s best friend — in the end.
Louise Sumners discovered recently she had lost a diamond from her 45-year-old wedding ring, and all attempts to find the missing jewel proved futile.
So, the disheartened wife of Billy Sumners, believing a cherished piece of valuable compressed carbon was lost forever, purchased a replacement.
Fate would intervene in the shape of the tiny dog named Cocoa that behaves something like a living, four-legged vacuum cleaner.
Moving about the house, the dog sniffs and sucks up just about anything that meets its snout and mouth.
Cocoa had been a member of the family for about a week, when Billy was performing a task quite familiar to any possessor of a pet — cleaning up after his dog.
One day Sumners was about to collect and dispose of a tiny amount of the dog’s excreted material from the floor when, he recalled, “I was going to clean it up, and fuss at him a little, then I looked down and I saw this little shiny thing in the poop.”
He added, with a laugh, “I got to looking, and said, ‘That’s Mama’s diamond.’
“About that time, she came in and I told her, ‘I found your diamond.’”
Louise recalled, “He said, ‘Let me show you. You’re not going to believe it.’ And I didn’t.
“I didn’t know what to think, but I know I wasn’t going to bother it.”
Billy, much to the chagrin of his wife, has wrapped the bejeweled waste in plastic wrap and keeps it in the freezer. Billy gleefully brings it out to show anyone who will listen to him relate the story.
Louise laughingly threatened, “If he goes too far with this, the next diamond lost might be off a divorce ring.”
Billy just smiled and laughed – maybe a little nervously.
The story doesn’t end there, however.
More recently, Billy found the demure canine vacuum-scooting something around with his nose, on the office floor of the family’s business, B&D Wrecker on U.S. 431 in Boaz.
On closer examination, he found the object was a pearl earring.
A woman who works in the office said immediately, “I lost one!”
Sumners said, “(Cocoa) would have swallowed it too, if didn’t have a long shaft on it.”
He smiled and wistfully added, “Cocoa might be useful in helping other people find lost jewelry.”
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