Ah, geez. Now my dog just got stung by a bee.

Thanks, dragon. I didn't even think of the baking soda paste. My mother used to put that on my sister and me when we were little. I was forever getting stung, especially on the feet because I was always outside barefooted. I completely forgot about it when Lilly got stung! I'm a bad momma, I guess. She's much better now. I gave her a doggy Xanax and she calmed down, only licking the sting occasionally. After she had a nap, she's been just fine, with an occasional check to see what was going on down there. But, she's breathing fine, eating fine and is loving all the attention she's gotten all day.

Thanks for the tip! I actually was scratching her there today. She got scratched all over and was soaking up all this sympathy! LOL She's a pretty happy gal right now. She's had 2 extra treats over what she normally gets in one day and has been in my lap practically all day. She'll probably be hard to live with for awhile because she was plenty spoiled before this happened. She's much better and is almost sitting without leaning to one side now. She just drifted off to sleep so maybe I should, too. All the dogs, the cats and the hubby are sleeping. That's normal around here for me to be the last one and I usually stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning but this has been an exceptional day. So, without further ado, I'll say goodnight. Thanks once again for the advice.

She's calming down now. I had to give her one of the pills I got from the vet for my other dog who is terrified of thunder. She's still kind of standing on her hind legs, though, even lying down. Apparently, it's hurting her pretty badly. Poor thing. I know what it feels like because I've been stung plenty of times. I keep her hair kind of short so I'm pretty sure she sat down on this bee. Her hair is about 2" long right now and that's the only way I can think of for a bee to get to that part of her anatomy. I hope she's able to pee! Yep, ants do bite. I learned that once when I was cutting the grass. Apparently, I had stopped for a minute and happened to be standing right on or beside an ant hill. Dozens of the nasties started climbing up my pants (jeans) and started biting me. I had my pants half off before I even got to my back door! LOL My dog apparently did the same thing, stood on an ant hill. When he yelped, I noticed ants all over the place and some had already climbed up into his hair. If anything, I think ant bites hurt worse than bee stings.

yeah the ants really bite so painfully. i got bitten by ants many times while cleaning on my kitchen or anywhere the house and i will just hurt and see that i had red ant on my skin.

Awww! That's so sad! I hope, like you said, that someone saw her and took her home. That happened to me once, only I was the one who found a dog. We had a Siberian Husky just walk up onto our porch and lay down like she lived there all her life. I thought it was funny, how she seemed to be right at home. But, she wasn't our dog and she had a collar on and seemed to be well-fed and loved. So, I made posters, explaining that I found this dog in the hopes that I would find her owner. My sons and I drove around, putting up these posters on telephone poles. We were putting up the third poster when a girl came running after us, yelling that she thought it was her dog. I asked her to describe it and she did. I asked her if it had a collar or not and she said yes, a red one. It was definitely her dog so she got into my car and I drove her to our house to pick up her dog. I would have kept the dog if I had not found it's owner, though. She was such a sweet-tempered dog! But, I'm glad I found her owner because I already had two dogs and really didn't need a third one. I know what it's like when a dog barks a lot! LOL Mine get stupid every now and then and go outside if they hear something and start barking, even if it's late at night. It's usually just the geese on our lake that they hear or a car going past our house but it is irritating! We have a small "doggy door" so the dogs and cats can go in and out when they want (the dogs can't get off our deck because we built a gate to close off the stairs to them) and I have to close that door sometimes because they won't stop barking when they go outside. I also close the door whenever my husband and I are both away from home so the neighbors don't complain about their barking. Luckily, our neighbors don't live too close to us but the sound of their barking 'carries' over the lake. We also hear our neighbor's dogs barking sometimes, but not too often. I call my dogs "my little doorbells" because they always let me know whenever someone is coming to our house.

Thank you for that sound advice. She is fine now. The day after she was stung, she licked at the sting a few times and she was 100% better today. She seems to have forgotten all about it. I did look for the stinger but found none. The bee was caught up in her hair and I believe the stinger stayed with the bee because I did look, very thoroughly. Today, though, she was happily munching on a piece of rawhide and, as I was about to take it away from her because she had chewed it down to the size of a quarter, she just swallowed it. I freaked! But, she got it down okay. I'll just have to keep an eye out for when it comes out the other end and hope it does. She's a trip, for sure! Always getting into some kind of trouble, although it's usually harmless. Don't worry about her getting all the love she can handle and more... she gets that every single day. She's one spoiled little girl and my sweetheart.

Aww! Poor little Max! Lilly was shaking pretty badly for a few hours afterward and would keep licking the spot where she was stung, but she was breathing well and, after I gave her a doggy Xanax in some lunch meat, she calmed down and even ate a bit of her food and the treat she got for being such a 'brave' little girl. Once she calmed down from the Xanax, she seemed fine and actually let go of me for awhile to take a nap. But, she's been clinging to me pretty constantly since then.

Thank you, mrsctb7. She is much better now. She licked the sting a bit the following day, then she was back to normal. Nothing swelled up; she just had a small lump where the bee had actually stung her but that went away by that night. She proved to me that she's fine and dandy now because, yesterday, she caught and killed a mouse that had come in to be out of the rain. She weighs only 5 pounds but she has proven herself to be an excellent 'mouser'. She got yet another extra treat for the mouse. She's one happy baby right now.

She's doing great now, abbey. Thanks for asking. She, luckily, did not have an allergic reaction. I was worried about that and kept a close eye on her for hours after the sting. I was also concerned that, even if she didn't have an allergic reaction, she would have a bad reaction because she's so small. But, she came through it just fine. The small bump at the sting site went down by that evening and she only licked it a few times the next day. However, she does seem to be a nervous wreck since the sting. She shivers a lot. I'm not sure if it's because of the bee sting or because it's getting cooler at night. Still, the temperature difference is not that great inside our house. I guess it's from the trauma of getting stung. She's fine if her mind is on something else like a bone or when she get a treat. I'm glad that your dog made it to the vet's! I would have been out of my mind with worry if my little girl's behind swelled up! I know all about antihistamines and always keep some on hand, just in case.

Aww! Poor thing! Having her paw stung and having to walk on it must have been awful for her! My dog was stung on her, well, in a very personal spot. LOL The sting was right next to her, uh, where she goes pee pee. She's able to walk around just fine but still sits at an angle with the leg on the side where the sting is kind of straight out, holding that side up. She licks it occasionally but it's much better now than it was. I think it scared her more than anything. Of course, it hurt, but I really think she was more scared than she was hurt. I gave her a doggy Xanax I got from the vet for my other dog who is terrified of thunder. It calmed her right down. She was able to eat once she calmed down and her breathing was good so it was obvious that she's not allergic to bees. It was definitely a doggy day here today because my other dog got poop stuck in her behind (yeah, half-in, half-out ) so I stuck her in the bathtub and ran water over it until it popped out. Then, she got a bath and a haircut. I'm so glad I have a strong stomach.

Awww! The poor dog! I bet he was really frightened by that experience. Maybe someone else had thrown the oil or black paint on the dog to get him to go away and that made him afraid of all humans for awhile.

Thank you, Archie. She's much better now. Luckily, she did not have an allergic reaction. I'm thinking that she sat down on this bee, because of where she got stung. How embarrassing! But, she's been getting a lot more cuddling and treats since her sting so she's pretty happy. She was spoiled but now she's even more spoiled. She seems to think that she will get a treat whenever she wants one now. I'm going to have to "de-spoil" her, although I hate her looking at me with those begging eyes.

Hi, Letran. She came through it just fine. Luckily, she didn't have an allergic reaction. I was surprised when she got stung but, once I saw WHERE she got stung, I could understand it. She had apparently sat down on the bee. What a place to get stung, huh? I felt so badly for her yet there was very little I could do to make her feel better. I made sure she had lots of treats, though. That seemed to help. Of course, now she's even more spoiled rotten.