Bees
Posted: Tue 19 July, 2005 Filed under: Animals 3 Comments »I forgot to write about this when it happened, but it turns out that we’re not the only people with an idiot dog. It’s now a couple of weeks ago, and thankfully she’s OK, but this is what happened…
Herself’s sister (the one in Norfolk) has an idiot Black Lab. Beautiful dog, but IQ of a housebrick. Anyway, she’d been out in the garden, messing about in the sun as idiot dogs do. (I should point out, I’ve no idea yet what I’m going to call the braindead beast, I’m sure I’ll figure out something sooner or later) And the gormless bugger swallowed a bee.
Bees being bees, it stung her as it went down, and she staggered into the office, having problems breathing. And collapsed.
A speeding trip to the vets ensued, and fortunately the idioit creature’s fine – I believe she’s also a bit more wary about buzzing insects now, too.
This is also the same dog who managed to get her head stuck in a metal wine-rack as a pup, which ended up needing to get firemen to cut her out of it. I think they should’ve taken the hint then…
Well, we used to have a dog that chewed through a metal pipe that housed most of the property’s power cables. In an effort to prevent the dog doing this, we chose to cover the pipe in mustard. The dog promptly licked the mustard off, and carried on chewing.
Nope definately not learnt the lesson about bees, still thinks they are fair game ! I’d like to correct the wine rack story, no firemen were required to set dog free, which was a shame, just a hack saw, the neighbour to hold her down and LOTS of patience!
Ya gotta love em tho. Can’t wait to get mine, but I must find a house first.