Or maybe the headline should be A Penny For Your Pup. Whatever the case, alliteration and puns are definitely in order for a story like this:

Penny is a money-hungry beagle and she’s no penny pincher. When the West Reading dog, whose full name is Penelope Olivia, gave in to her craving for pennies, she didn’t stop at just one.

Penny scarfed down 75 pennies and change — a quarter, two dimes and a nickel, to be exact — totaling $1.25. …

On Tuesday, when Nancy and her husband, Don, left for the dentist, Penny went hunting. She sniffed out Don’s cache of pennies, neatly wrapped and stored in a box upstairs.

The dog broke into the box, chewed off the wrappers and feasted on six dozen or so of the metal wafers inside. When Nancy and Don returned, they found Don’s pennies missing and Penny looking pleased and plump.

The vet couldn’t wait for the pennies to pass through Penny’s system the old-fashioned way (assuming that would have been possible) because the zinc in the coins could have poisoned her. If I were Penny’s owner, I’d be grateful that I didn’t have to deal with the mess.