VPI Hambone Award

Sara Kelly went to a friend’s cabin for the weekend, where several people were ice fishing. They had a bucket full of minnows for bait and a fishing pole resting across the bucket. The moment they got inside the cabin, Quincy rushed over to smell the minnows and ended up inhaling a treble hook. He immediately started thrashing like a fish on the end of a line.They took him right to the veterinarian and he had to be tranquilized so they could cut off two of the barbs and push the one embedded barb through and out of his nose.

Quincy was a bit wheezy for a day, but back to his old self in no time. “My advice for pet owners is to be extra alert when you haven’t had the time or opportunity to puppy-proof a new area,” Sara says.