You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Passing a rock. Not passing it like a football, I mean passing it through your digestive tract.
Imagine a jagged hunk of granite, twisting and tearing the soft lining of your small intestines into a fragmented bloody mess.
Hope you are eating right now. That would suck, huh?
I know digesting a rock sounds “RUFF” and it is. Which is why it’s a competition for dogs with cast iron stomachs and peanuts for brains.
Apparently a national insurance company doesn’t have enough claims to process or money to count, so it has come up with a stupid competition where dumb and crazy is the barometer for success.
The award is called the Hambone Award. And this year’s Hambone goes to a little pug named Harley who reportedly ate and then crapped more than 100 rocks.
Dino the dinosaur on the Flintstones couldn’t eat that many rocks from the Slate Rock quarry.
100 rocks?
What intestinal fortitude.
In case you were wondering, and I know that you were, the Hambone Award is named for a dog that reportedly ate an entire Thanksgiving ham in the refrigerator.
I can only imagine what that must have looked like on the front lawn a day later?
Why Harley would eat 100 rocks is unknown. Is he troubled about peace in the Middle East? Is he upset by the looming debt crisis that jeopardizes his kibble supply? Hard to say.
But apparently the little Pug beat out equally stupid creatures to take home the award.
Gus, a Labrador retriever gave Harley a run for the money when he gobbled down five pounds of cookies. Yum.
I bet that was a shovel load of happiness the next morning.
Somewhere in this happy tail of dogs eating objects that should be in a garden, there is a sign of the apocalypse.
According to the Pug’s owner, this weird behavior sort of just manifested.
Owner, Lori Laverdiere, returned from a trip and took him for a walk, she noticed that he was passing rocks at an alarming rate and could even feel them in his stomach.
Yikes.
Past winners have been equally as stupid. Ellie, a Labrador retriever ate an entire beehive full of bees.
Ouch.
And Lulu, a bulldog gobbled down 15 baby pacifiers, a bottle cap and a piece of a basketball.
Nothing exceeds like excess.
No telling what next year’s champ will have to consume. A cannon ball? A stack of razors? A kerplunk set?
And that is crazy.