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A rug has been removed from a sheriff's office in Florida after it was noticed that it read "in dog we trust" instead of "in God we trust".

The $500 (£329) mat lay at the entrance to the office in Pinellas County for two months before someone noticed, a spokeswoman said.

The error was made by the rug's manufacturer and it is being replaced.

Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said they were looking at auctioning it for charity, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

There have been several offers to buy the misprinted rug .

"I'd buy or donate to a charity to get one," wrote one user on the office's Facebook page.

"I'm a great dog person and really find that a rug like that would be wonderful for my dogs to have for beds," wrote another.

The rug was put away on Wednesday after a deputy spotted the mistake.

"In God we trust" was adopted as the national motto of the US in 1956. It is also the official motto of Florida.

Dogs are closer to God than anything I know.
Just look in their eyes and you can see it.

oldr_n_wsr wrote:Dogs are closer to God than anything I know.
Just look in their eyes and you can see it.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/us/feat-f ... index.html

With Dog, all things are possible.

Sheriff's office rug with 'In Dog We Trust' typo sells for nearly $10,000
By Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, CNN
Updated 8:04 AM ET, Thu January 22, 2015

A Florida sheriff's office has turned a $500 mistake into a $9,650 windfall for charity.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's office ordered a new rug, which turned up last week with a typo. The large green rug with the black and yellow Pinellas County Sheriff's Office logo included the phrase "In Dog We Trust" within one of its crests.

It was supposed to read "In God We Trust."

The Sheriff's Office said rug manufacturer, American Floor Mats, would replace it

That could have been the end of the story except Sheriff Bob Gualtieri had an idea.

He decided to auction off the unique item -- the "doggone rug," as he called it -- and donate the proceeds to a local rescue.

"The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office will not sweep anything under the rug," the department said when it put up the item.

Jane Sidwell is the founder of Canine Estates Inc. She figured her shelter would net a few hundred bucks from the sale.

"I knew that the sheriff's office paid $500 for it," she told CNN affiliate Bay News 9 . "So I thought well, that's great. We'll get $500. But we had no idea it would escalate into what it has."

Eighty three bids later, the rug was sold -- for a whopping $9,650!

The money will go mainly toward vet bills, Sidwell said. Last year, the shelter adopted out 186 dogs.

"A lot of these dogs just come in in absolute terrible shape," she told the affiliate.

Nice story...

Good job sheriff

Doggone!

That's quite a tail.

"A lot of these dogs just come in in absolute terrible shape,"

I see the ASPCA ads on TV and the eyes of the dogs they show just tears me up. (and the cats too. I dislike cats but do not wish them ill)
I donated, got the T-shirt too.
And a picture of a dog. He didn't look so good and I hope they send a pic after he gets a little better.