Andrea Rosebrock 
The past weekend, a woman walking her boxer, Boogie, and another dog, near the town of Erkrath in western Germany’s Neander Valley had quite an unusual experience. Her pooch was wandering off leash near a stream and as dogs often will, was sniffing and prowling but when he excitedly brought his “find” back to his owner, she wasn’t nearly as excited as her dog was. She quickly recognized the dog’s new “toy” to be a rusty grenade.
“The two dogs were playing off leash when the boxer – a normal family dog called Boogie, as in ‘boogie woogie’ – found an object and brought it to the woman,” Erkrath police spokesman Ulrich Löhe told The Local.
She instructed Boogie to put it back, which he did, and then alerted authorities. Authorities cordoned off the area, removed the grenade, took it to their headquarters and diffused the still live grenade without any harm being done.
Reports say that it is actually not that uncommon to still find live ordinance left over from WW II like this American grenade that was found. When munitions are found, even six decades later, evacuations are done so that they can be diffused and removed.
“We have at least one or two old unexploded ordnance calls in our county each month – we wouldn’t have the ordnance clean up unit if we didn’t need them,” Löhe said. “They are responsible for the entire Düsseldorf area, and they have a lot to do.”
So for any of you out there who thinks your dog sometimes finds and brings you strange gifts, try to top this one! I think the stragest “gift” I’ve ever received from one of my babies was an animal bone he found when we were hiking in the woods a while back. This might be unusual for some people but in WI is wooded areas, it’s not that uncommon. Can you beat that? 
D, I think we have you beat. How about a live baby squirrel? Our Knight #2 brought one in when we lived at a different house, and he had his play area fenced off with a doggie door. He brought it into me while I was doing laundry. I screamed when I saw it, and at the time the two leggers were young, and they captured the baby in a laundry basket and took the little one back outside.
As far as what this little German dog found, OMG, I think I would have died. I have sent this link on to my German foreign exchange son to get his opinion, and to see if they have heard of it. I have no clue as to how far it is from Frankfort where he lives to Dusseldorf.
The squirrel find is cute…. Bruti’s brought me gophers twice…. yuck! They were not as fortunate as Knight’s squirrel tho. Ooopsie….
D.
CITY GIRL, CITY GIRL – Don’t know what a gopher looks like (isn’t that bad?) Sorry about your unlucky gifts from Bruti.
LOL Susie, I didn’t either and considering these were well slimed, still not sure I do. I know they’re not good for yards tho and my other half was suitably happy about the removal. He boasts of it often. Me, not so happy… but it was pretty funny because you could tell Bruti was very proud of himself and wouldn’t give them up to anyone but me.
D.
D, they were “special gifts” to you from Bruti. I still get a chuckle when I think of the baby squirrel. Same with Knight, he would not give the gift to the boys, but only “mommy”.
Well, just got an email from my “son” in Germany. Here is what he had to say about this – “OMG – this story is unbelievable! The woman and the dog are very lucky
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But its not unusual that WWII Weapons are found here in Germany.
It is amazing that there are still remnants of the war, but then you think about things that have been found here in America where there was action in the Civil War. People are still finding artifiacts.