A woman surnamed Zhang, who lives in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, noticed that her dog loved eating money.

"Once I left a 10-yuan ($1.40) note on a table at home, the dog climbed up and tore the note to pieces and ate it. Later, I found that it ate another 50-yuan note."

"Why did it do that?" Zhang asked.

According to a local pet doctor, the dog is not trying to deplete its owners earnings - rather, it is suffering from depletion of certain trace elements in its body. Those elements are present in small quantities in the printed notes.

He advised that the dog be brought to a pet hospital for treatment.