Super saving dog
Kai Jeaw (which means omelette in Thai) is a cross between a chihuahua and a poodle.
He lives with a couple
couple
Meaning: two people who are married or are involved in a romantic relationship
Thai Translation: คู่แต่งงานกัน, คุ่รัก
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who own a grocery store in Ayutthaya’s Uthai district.
He is the perfect dog for them. As a super saver, he has helped his owners, Pramote Kongsaema and his wife Sudarat Srikachin, both aged 51, achieve financial stability.
It all began, says Mrs Sudarat, when Khai Jaew was very little. He found a 100-baht banknote someone had dropped in front of the shop. He took it to her and she gave him a compliment. Later, some other people dropped a 20-baht note and a 50-baht note and Kai Jeaw took them to her again.
“Then I tried to hand him a banknote which I got from selling goods. He did the same by taking it inside the house,” Mrs Sudarat recalled.Encouraged by the dog, now three-years-old, she and her husband thought it was a good opportunity to collect the family’s money through Kai Jeaw.
Since then, the couple hand some of the money – usually between 300 and 400 baht – from grocery sales to Kai Jeaw every day.
The money collected by Kai Jeaw had been kept separate and never used for household expenses until recently, Mrs Sudarat said.
Mr Pramoj said he and his wife were able to collect a large amount of money unknowingly due to Kai Jeaw’s cleverness. They estimated the dog has carried more than 200,000 baht for them over the past three years.
“We have found that we can use Kai Jeaw’s 'savings' to pay the installments on our Toyota Fortuner every month.
Adapted from a story by Sunthon Pongpao.