Picture this: one day you’re cleaning your house, gathering some unused knickknacks and enjoying the peace of mind that only having an urn of your dead Labrador’s ashes nearby can bring. Later, after you drop off a load of items at Goodwill, you realize that you accidentally donated your decorative box of dog remains along with the bag of stone-washed jeans and Christmas sweaters. Heartbreaking? Yes. Gross as hell? Absolutely. Now picture the person who tried to purchase the box o’ ashes.The News Tribune

reports Monday that the minor tragedy is exactly what befell a Tacoma dog lover, who’s so far asked to remain anonymous.The person had kept the pooch’s ashes because he or she apparently “couldn’t bear to remove them from the box.”The person who found the remains at the store had been jazzed about buying the box until finding that it was actually full of an unknown and highly suspicious powder (the worst kind of powder). The bereaved dog owner is reportedly “embarrassed, but otherwise happy,” to get the ashes back.Unfortunately, the owner will now have to deduct the tax write off earned by donating pet remains. Note for tax day: that’s box 7-FG (for flipping gross) on your 8283 Charitable Donations Tax Form.