2009 Hambone Awards: 12 most bizarre pet accidents

September 1, 11:22 AMDC Dogs ExaminerMichelle Critchell

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Crawford, the Brittany spaniel of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, ate a bra and its gel inserts. The inserts proved mildly toxic to Crawford. Fortunately, the bra passed in about a week.

And it only gets better from there. Veterinary Pet Insurance Co (VPI) received many astonishing pet health insurance claims last year. They collected the most unusual pet claims from each month.

Jean Pierre the French bulldog in Ontario, California, presented with a lump on his side that was initially thought to be a bug bite or cancerous growth. An exploratory surgery revealed the lump was actually a migrating corndog stick. 

You can vote for the most bizarre claim of the year. The pet with the claim voted most unusual will receive VPI's first Hambone Award, named in honor of a VPI-insured dog that got stuck in a refrigerator and ate an entire Thanksgiving ham while waiting to be found.

There are many more odd claims. Click HERE  to read about the dog with a pacifier eating fetish and the dog that inhaled a fish hook. All have happy endings.

Voting for the VPI Hambone Award ends Sept. 14, 2009.

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Watch out for your pets.  They are toddlers in animal suits.

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