Dog Picks Owners Winning Lottery Ticket!

A woman in Guangdong, China named Lin was shopping when her golden retriever pulled free of his leash and bolted into a nearby lottery shop. By the time she caught up, the dog had clamped his teeth around a scratch-off ticket and left tooth marks all over it. Damaged merchandise. She had to pay for it. This is the part of the story where the dog turns out to be a financial genius. The ticket her retriever had personally selected by mouth was a winner. It paid 1,000 yuan, about $139. "I was so surprised," Lin told AsiaOne. "I've never won such a large sum of money in a lottery." That sentence becomes funnier the longer you sit with the fact that her financial advisor is a dog. Lin pressed her luck the next day, bringing the dog back to pick again. This ticket paid 30 yuan, just over four dollars. Diminished returns, but technically undefeated. She stopped while he was ahead and spent the winnings on canned food and treats for the genius behind the whole operation.

The story spread across Weibo, where commenters crowned the retriever a "fortune dog." One user nailed the takeaway: "I don't know if I should buy a lottery ticket or a golden retriever." Another suggested simply acquiring the dog and cutting out the middleman. When you zoom out, it is a small story. A dog ate a lottery ticket, the ticket won, and the winnings went back into dog food, meaning the entire economy of this incident begins and ends with the retriever's stomach. A good boy did a chaotic thing, it worked out, and he got snacks. We should all be so lucky.

Source:https://www.upworthy.com/pn-golden-retriever-lottery-ticket-china/