text: 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.'
target: 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 .