Hambone Award (sorta like Darwin Awards, but for dogs who lived to tell the tale)

[Bridget B]

Ok dog lovers, this is for real.  Please note of the last 5 months nominees, two were labs and one was a golden!!

 

VPI (pet insurance company) hosts an annual contest to choose a winner from all the insurance claims processed each year.  It is a good way to educate the public on the dangers to our pets.  And for me personally, it is a reminder of how fortunate we are.  Obviously for VPI, it helps to sell insurance!

 

Anyway I found it interesting (in a train-wreck kinda way) and informative.  Thought you might, too.

 

http://www.vpihamboneaward.com/nominees/

 

I apologize if this is old news, but I just learned of it...

[Carol and Banjo]

Jane...I'm hoping that time has healed your wounds and you won't be upset that your story cracked me up.  DH out Easter morning "hunting" for Easter treats....and Lab stuffed on jelly beans and what-not....and the poor children thinking the Easter Bunny shorted them on candy!   Oh the things we mothers go through!!!   Very cute story!

[Camilla and Darwin]

I don't think it's a coincidence that there are two Labs and a Golden, they are total pigs!

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Labs are unbelievable.  Our Lab (Boomer) once knocked down the kitchen closet door (yes, literally) the night before Easter and ate all the candy in the Easter Baskets....and there was lots.  Luckily there was very little chocolate....mostly jelly beans, gummy bears.  I was in tears on Easter morning when I found it.  Poor DH was out driving around trying to find an open store early Easter morning, and we had to tell the kids the Easter Bunny was late because he had so many houses to visit.  That dog never even got sick.  His stomach was made of cast iron.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I love that they're calling it the Hambone Award, in light of what happened to JD after I stupidly gave him that hambone last fall.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I loved the story about Gus. We had a lab that once ate an entire praline peach pie off of the counter. This was the first time she had ever counter surfed and we came home to find the whole pie gone. She threw up for days and we realized that nothing could be left on the counters after that incident.