Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. (VPI) asked the public to decide which pet with the most unusual health insurance claim in 2010 would take home the 2nd annual VPI Hambone Award.
Between August 2 and August 16, 2010 nearly 3,000 people visited www.VPIHamboneAward.com to choose among the 12 nominees and select their favorite.
The votes are in, and this year’s award goes to Ellie, a Labrador retriever from Santee, California. Bee-lieve it or not, Ellie ate an entire beehive and its thousands of inhabitants!!
Ellie may be a young dog, but she’s already managed to eat everything from wooden toy train tracks to laptop computer keys. So the beehive in the backyard was just another culinary adventure for this insatiable pooch. Unfortunately for Ellie, the recently sprayed beehive was full of pesticides and thousands of dead bees, and that combination sent her to the veterinary hospital later that night. Ellie was treated and sent home with an upset stomach but made a full recovery.
As the winner, Ellie’s owners, Robert and Sandra Coe, will receive a bronze trophy in the shape of a ham as well as a gift basket full of doggie toys and treats.
Created to recognize the year’s most unusual pet health insurance claim, the VPI Hambone Award is named in honor of a VPI-insured dog that got stuck in a refrigerator and ate an entire Thanksgiving ham before being found with a licked-clean hambone and a mild case of hypothermia.
Full stories for all 2010 nominees can be found at www.VPIHamboneAward.com.
Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor
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