Getting Your 15 Minutes The Hard Way

This month Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) awarded their second annual Hambone Award. The award is given for the most unusual insurance claim. Nominations are submitted and then people have an opportunity to vote for the finalists. This years winner is Ellie, a Labrador that ate a beehive.

Part of me, mostly the boring part, wants to talk about managing things, especially with a dog that you know eats everything in sight and a beehive full of pesticides anywhere near each other.

The other wants to laugh at the story about the dog that ate a beehive! If, for no other reason, that when I first saw the headline "Dog eats beehive." I knew it was a lab. (Although, to be fair, I did picture a chocolate lab.)

One of the runners up was a Border Collie that broke a window trying to get at the mailman, which isn't funny at all. I have mixed feelings about it making the list. It's a very sad story, but the fact that they discuss what was done afterwards to address the issue redeems it a bit.

Other than a pit bull who was bit on the toe by a muskrat (it seems they don't understand play bows,) I've been pretty lucky over the years. How about you?