Last Thanksgiving, things got a lot crazier than usual when our dog, Max, wouldn’t stop barking at the turkey my husband, Kyle, had just picked up. At first, I thought Max just wanted a piece, but when I removed the plastic covering, I found something shocking—inside the turkey was a bag filled with thousands of dollars in cash. Max had been alerting me to it, not the turkey!

I called the police, worried that we were unknowingly involved in something illegal. When the officers arrived, they were just as baffled as I was. As Kyle returned with his mom, Ruth, he looked nervous, and it didn’t take long before he admitted that the money was his. He had been trying to surprise me with a trip to Hawaii, and in a panic, he hid the cash in the turkey to keep it a secret.