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Vote for the most unusual pet insurance claim in the 2012 VPI Hambone Awards

September 6, 2012 By Joanne Brokaw 2 Comments

Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. is getting ready to award the 2012 Annual Hambone Award, and you get to pick the winner! Named after a dog that ate an entire Thanksgiving ham while stuck in a refrigerator, the VPI Hambone Award has since been presented for three equally unusual claims. Past winners include Ellie, a Labrador [...]

Filed Under: Animal behavior, Animal health, Animals in the news, cats, Dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: cats, Dogs, pet insurance, pigs 2 Comments

McDonalds and Hormel to end use of gestation crates

February 15, 2012 By Joanne Brokaw 2 Comments

McDonald’s Corporation and Hormel both recently announced that they will phase out the use of sow gestation stalls in favor of more humane treatment of pigs that become our food. A gestation create is a 2 x 7 crate in which a pig lives its entire live, virtually immobalized and unable to even turn around. impregnated over and [...]