VPI Hambone Award

Odd vet claim could win dog trophy

After Omahan Dennis Bullaro, 65, and his mother, Marie, 90, finished a roast dinner a while back, their cockalier Toby got the remaining round bone. The year-old cocker spaniel and Cavalier King Charles spaniel mix chewed and played with it for two months. He would fling it into the air and catch it in his mouth. He would drop it on the ground and roll over it to scratch his back. But all the fun and games ended when Toby managed to get the bone stuck around his front teeth and lower jaw, covering his snout and forcing a trip to an emergency veterinary clinic.