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 could n'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 veil when she was pregnant with swollen breasts . Suspected their 90 lb baby puppy , however , had swallowed it . six months later it was discovered by a farmer who found it in excrement at local field they lived in .