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This chihuahua won PetSmart's 2005 Halloweeen Competition. It seemed the perfect illustration for the following true tale.

In 1993, the Butterball Turkey hotline received an hysterical call from a woman who was nearly hyperventillating as she outlined a problem that was to go down in Butterball history as one of the funniest calls they ever had.

The caller explained that her chihuahua had crawled inside a twenty-pound Butterball turkey and would not come out. She received advice on how to safely cut open the opening and excise the dog from the comfort of meat. Here's an article about Butterball phonecalls that distinguishes urban folktale from authentic happening, and this one's indeed legit:

www.snopes.com/holidays/thanksgiving/hotline.asp

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