A woman's missing wedding ring has turned up after four months - in the family dog's excrement. Nikki Balovich had taken off her diamond-encrusted silver ring as she was pregnant and her fingers were swollen. When she couldn't find it, she suspected their 90-pound baby mastiff Halli had swallowed it up, but there was no way of checking. Nikki Balovich had taken off her diamond-encrusted silver ring as she was pregnant and her fingers were swollen. When she lost it, she suspected her 90-pound baby mastiff Halli had swallowed it . 'She picks them up, and carries things around – hair clips, rocks, hair ties. She’s always spitting them out,' Balovich told The Daily Sitka Sentinel. 'My husband was always saying, put them away, put them upstairs – you’re going to lose them.' Finally, almost half a year later, the mystery was solved when the mother-of-three, based in Sitka, Alaska, saw a post on a Facebook sales site. It said: 'FOUND! Beautiful wedding type band. If u have lost a ring, no matter where, call and describe! Found in an unusual place.' Balovich told the Sentinel she had a gut feeling it could be hers - and what the 'unusual place' might refer to. 'I gave up, I thought it was long gone,' she told the newspaper. 'We take the dog everywhere with us, on hikes, on the boat – what were the chances we were going to find it? 'It’s been so long, but I had a gut feeling. I thought I’ll call, why not?' Half a year after it vanished, she saw a Facebook post saying a wedding ring had been found in an 'unusual place'. She contacted the user, Bob Potrzuski, who said he had found it while picking up dog feces in a field . She contacted the Facebook user, Bob Potrzuski, and sure enough it was hers. Turns out, his wife found the ring while picking up dog poop at a local ball field, where Balovich had recently volunteered - with Halli. She collected the ring on Thursday. 'I feel very lucky,' she said. 'It’s been on my hands ever since – my hand was feeling naked without it.'
Nikki Balovich took off her ring when she was pregnant with swollen fingers.
Suspected their 90lb mastiff puppy, Halli, had swallowed it.
Four months later it was returned by a stranger who found it in excrement at local field they walk in.