Poor little Diesel kept us worried half the night.
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I guess that dogs being interested in little moving things has long been true.
They just can't seem to stop themselves from investigating.
They push themselves right into the personal space of the buzzie.
Because they can't pick it up, they do the next best thing.
The results are as expected.
So, last night, my corgi Diesel decided he would masticate the early season bee on the floor.
Next time I hope he will choose to ignore the buzzie and dress up like a bee instead.
Fortunately he was mostly freaked out, and didn't show any symptoms from the sting. We think he got it right in the nose, and he whimpered and wouldn't sleep in his own bed; he ended up on a blanket right next to mommy for the rest of the evening. We found the half-crunched bee and put it in the trash. I am hoping he learns that some buzzies shouldn't be crunched. I learned to get rid of indoor bees as soon I see them. Usually I will catch and release them but it would have been too cold for the bee to survive outside until Thursday, so I waited. (Sorry, bee.)
Turns out that dogs getting stung is not really a big deal unless your animal shows signs of distress including swelling, scratching, hives or trouble with breathing or drooling. It would be best to remove any stingers you can see; dogs usually get stung where there isn't too much hair. If your dog does show symptoms, the vet can help; some vets will even set up an EpiPen for dogs who have had anaphylactic shock symptoms in the past.
My dog has chomped bees before, but this was the first one who gave as good as he got. It was not a honey bee, maybe a wasp or yellow jacket because it had not expired after stinging Diesel's nose, and it was crawling around on the bedroom floor where Diesel had dropped it. Glad it wasn't a honey bee or a bumble bee, I think removing a stinger would have been more that I could have handled!
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