Border Patrol dog living the dream after discovering massive haul of "prohibited meat"

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Everybody can remember one really good day at work — a day when everything went right, when the hours just flew by, maybe you even got a bonus or something.

Via Fox News, one little hard-working pup will doubtlessly remember this day forever:

A Customs and Border Protection agriculture detector helped discover nearly 100 pounds of prohibited meat, plants and wildlife products inside luggage arriving from Thailand after alerting officers to the suitcase, authorities said.

CBP said K-9 Maisy alerted officers to the bag, which contained 50 pounds of meat, including raw meat, 33 pounds of mangoes, garlic, bamboo, banana plants and approximately 16 pounds of Bengal monitor lizard. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took custody of the monitor lizard.

Here's Maisy with her once-in-a-lifetime haul:

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That's a look of pure, unadulterated pride right there.

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You can't blame the pooch. Bagging 50 pounds of meat, a few crates of mangoes, some bamboo shoots, and bananas — it's enough to put on any pup's resume.

The comments section couldn't resist, of course:

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Now, if your mind works in the same strange way mine does, you immediately wondered the same thing: When they say "16 pounds of Bengal monitor lizard," do they mean lizard meat or a living lizard?

A few other folks in the comments were wondering the same; thankfully, eagle-eyed observer Ashley Nicole stepped in to help:

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That does indeed look like some lizard scraps there:

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Gross!

Thank you, Maisy, for keeping it out of the country for us!

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