A Cat Couldn't Be Bothered To Do Something Like This

[SIZE="1"]from Reuters, via YahooNews[/SIZE]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Labrador that ate a beehive containing pesticides and thousands of dead bees won an award on Monday that recognized the most unusual pet health insurance claim in the United States.

Ellie, who fully recovered from her encounter with the beehive in southern California, beat a border collie that ran through a window to get at a mailman, and a terrier that bit a chainsaw.

She won a bronze trophy in the shape of a ham, and basket of toys and doggie treats.

The winner was announced on Monday by the Veterinary Pet Insurance Co (VPI) and selected from a dozen pets nationwide.

"Ellie may be a young dog, but she's already managed to eat everything from wooden toy train tracks to laptop computer keys," said the VPI. "So the beehive in the backyard was just another culinary adventure for this insatiable pooch.

All three hungry dogs have recovered after receiving care from a vet.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Editing by Belinda Goldsmith)

:o

I rest my case, your honor. (M'Lord)

So, to break her of this eating habit, they give her a bronze trophy in the shape of things she should eat/chew on.

Cruel.

A Labrador that ate a beehive containing pesticides and thousands of dead bees won an award on Monday that recognized the most ...

In other news, a human that destroyed a valuable colony of bees with poison and left the remains where their known-to-be-crazy dog could eat it won an award on Monday that recognized the most stupid person to not actually kill themself this year.

Surely that is good for a Darwin Awards Honourable Mention.

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

I am so glad I don't have a dog.

ZenGum;678767 wrote:

In other news, a human that destroyed a valuable colony of bees with poison and left the remains where their known-to-be-crazy dog could eat it won an award on Monday that recognized the most stupid person to not actually kill themself this year.

It was probably not a valuable colony of bees, more likely a nest of yellow jackets or wasps, where the usual practice is to spray and flee... quickly. :haha: