Mississippi found a bee that refused to go quietly. I was in the front yard when it happened and she came running up to the fence and barked at me. I figured she thought I was an intruder so I just said “what the heck you yellin’ at me for.”I went about my business thinking she was just being her regular vocal self. When I went inside a few minutes later, she had come in from the back yard and was laying around all puffy faced. It didn’t seem like she was too uncomfortable, she just wanted some love. I gave her a bowl of ice, snuggled with her in my lap, and called Tom to pick up some children’s Benadryl. It was easy to feed it to her. She licked a taste of it off my fingers and we mixed some up in some canned food. She gobbled it down. The swelling only lasted two or three hours and it doesn’t seem that itchy. She looked like Scooby Doo for a while there.
I mowed as much of the clover patch as I could, hoping to lower the number of bees in the yard. So sad for me. I loved having so many bees around. The clover was too enticing for the bees around here. And Mississippi was very good at hunting and eating them. They probably taste like nectar.
She was begging to go outside again within a couple hours and when we finally did let her out, she bee-lined for the clovers to go find herself another bee. She didn’t seem to learn her lesson. I guess we should get an epi pen. Although her reaction wasn’t that bad, I just feel safer having a pen around the house in case she has a stronger reaction. I wonder if they make dog sized epi pens or if I just have to get one from a regular doctor. It’ll be good to have one around anyway, I also like to mess with the bees and I also am worried that I’ll need an epi pen someday. Safety first!