Veterinary Pet Insurance reveals the names of the top 3 contenders for most unusual pet health insurance claims.
A Labrador retriever from Santee, Calif., a West Highland white terrier from Belleville, Ill., and a Border Collie from Birmingham, Ala., are the top 3 contenders vying for the VPI Hambone Award, an honor given to the most unusual claim received by Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. (VPI), the nation’s oldest and largest provider of pet health insurance.
After collecting the most unusual pet insurance claims from the past 12 months, VPI is encouraging pet lovers to cast their vote for the most bizarre claim of the year at www.VPIHamboneAward.com. Voting for the VPI Hambone Award will end on Monday, August 16 and the winner will be announced later this month.
Ellie the Labrador, who lives with Robert and Sandra Coe in Santee, Calif., was nominated because she discovered and ate an entire beehive – bees included. Darci the terrier, who lives with Barbara Abell in Belleville, Ill., was nominated because she tried to take a bite out of a moving chainsaw that resulted in two cuts in her right upper lip. Aubie the Border Collie, who lives with Sharman Martin in Birmingham, Ala., was nominated because he jumped through and shattered a closed living room window to get to a very startled mail carrier. To read all the stories, visit VPIHamboneAward.com and vote for your favorite nominee.
The pet with the claim voted most unusual will receive VPI’s second Hambone Award, a prize 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. All pets considered for the award made full recoveries and received insurance reimbursements for eligible treatment expenses.
Written by Darren Shannon
dshannon@petinsurance.com
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