Sigh…. I am not going to tell you what The Beagle just ate.

Let’s just say that it was in a glass bottle with a metal cap and she used her doggie teeth as a bottle opener. It was a first and now I know she is capable of that miraculous feat as well as many others.

I will keep an eye on her and make some rice to keep on hand if her stomach starts acting up. I am also going to comfort myself with reading about other troublesome dogs chronicled at the Hambone Awards.

The Hambone Award is named in honor of a VPI-insured dog that got stuck in a refrigerator and ate an entire Thanksgiving ham while waiting for someone to find him. The dog was eventually found, with a licked-clean ham bone and a mild case of hypothermia.

And now, I am also going to make sure the refrigerator door is absolutely, positively shut.