A Labrador mix named Pepper got into grandma's purse and gobbled down hundreds of dollars in cash.

According to the Associated Press, Debbie Hulleman's dog -- who has been known to gnaw on lipstick and munch on shampoo bottles -- scarfed down nearly $750 while he was staying with Hulleman's mother in Minnesota.

Hulleman had asked her mother to take care of Pepper and her other dog last month while she and her husband went on a 4-day vacation. Pepper, an 8-year-old black Labrador-German shorthair, apparently removed an envelope of cash from the purse and proceeded to ingest it.

Hulleman's mother recovered some of the money that Pepper spit out. But when Hulleman returned and went to clean up her dogs' mess outside, she found he had made a number of deposits, and saw a $50 bill in one pile.

Some money laundering was then in order. The chore of sorting through dog feces, which involved use of a strainer, netted about $400, said Hulleman, 50. Between that and other bills that Pepper had either vomited or simply chewed on, the family recovered $647, the Associated Press said.

That would leave $103 unaccounted for. An MSN report on Pepper's fund transfer says the dog ate $1,500, all but $200 of which was recovered. In either case, that amounts to a withholding of about 12 percent.

Meaning that following Pepper around for the next couple of days, now that the dog is back home in Menomonie -- yes, Menomonie -- Wisconsin, might just pay off.