Assistance dogs relieve "ruff" times at the ATM

Throughout time, man's best friend has proven to possess an extraordinary capacity to provide helpful services. An unfortunate few become chauffeurs for lazy individuals, however many others provide invaluable aid to the disabled and wheelchair-bound. Assistance dogs have been known to perform tasks such as doing laundry and grocery shopping, but now they can totally rock the ATM as well. It all started with Endal, a ten-year-old Labrador Retriever assistance dog who took the liberty to nab his frustrated wheelchair-bound owner's card, money and receipt with his mouth -- a first for contributive canines. A charity that trains assistance dogs, Canine Partners, was quite inspired and has added an ATM regimen that teaches the helpful hounds to insert and remove cards, retrieve cash and receipts, and hand them to the owner who is responsible for entering their PIN number. Nothing in life is free, and a lot of stuff in life requires cash, therefore we can definitely conclude that this novel advancement is paws-down progressive.

[Via Spluch]

[xevia @ Mar 3rd 2007 9:06PM]

entertaining notion, until the dog punctures the card, now you have to wait for a week for a new card, or the dof shreds the money a little to much.
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[Mr. Picklesworth @ Mar 3rd 2007 9:17PM]

Well the idea is that the dog /doesn't/ bite through the card or chew the money. That's what well-trained assistance dogs are all about :)

[1389 @ Mar 15th 2007 9:23PM]

What's a dof? LOL...

[1389 @ Mar 15th 2007 9:23PM]

"...or the dof shreds the money a little to much."

What's a dof? LOL...

[Michal G @ Mar 3rd 2007 9:16PM]

So in time would they be able to enter pins too and then I'll stay home play WOW for 12 hours and when I need to go order another pie just tell the dog go get a 20 and bam

[All of that was a joke]

New meaning to couch potato

[John Doe @ Mar 4th 2007 12:16AM]

*Pulls a gun on the dog* OK Dog! Give me the cash. You heard meeeeeeeeeeeeeeow! Dude! Not the crotch! Not the crotch!

[Stoked x 10 @ Mar 4th 2007 2:21AM]

best. story. picture. evar.

[LS @ Mar 4th 2007 3:18PM]

kinda reminds me of American Psycho, although this is not nearly as funny

[Kichigai Mentat @ Mar 5th 2007 8:40PM]

The problem is that once dogs are trained to get money out of ATMs legally, they will be coerced by less-than-legal fellows to do this, then they'll move on to steal money themselves, and then steal music, just like Quincy in the FoxTrot comic posted here. All of a sudden, it doesn't seem so far fetched.

I for one welcome our canine overlords...

[steve @ Mar 5th 2007 11:29AM]

How do we know it's not the dogs getting gambling money for poker?

[K @ Mar 20th 2007 2:24AM]

Well, actually in working with the dogs they are VERY coordinated with their mouths. My puppy in training, is able to pick cards off the ground (a hard task for people with opposable thumbs) and carry them with no punctures, just a bit of drool some days :-D