Bees Suck!

Well, I made a post about MY puppy, now it is time to make a post about my roommate's dog (my puppy's brother.)

As you can tell by the photo, Maximus just doesn't look right- his face is HUGE!  Well let me tell you, it is quite the story.

Last night, Korissa, my roommate and Maximus' owner, was going to stay the night at our sorority, so I told her I would watch Max for the night.  At about 11p.m., I decided to go to bed, so like normal, I let both puppies outside to do their business, then brought them both to my room with me.  Sampson (my puppy) always sleeps with me, and on the nights I watch Max, he too joins us in bed.

Well last night I just couldn't understand it!  Max just wouldn't stay in bed.  Finally after the third time of him jumping out of bed, I decided to put him in his kennel for the night as "punishment."

Only a few minutes after putting him in his kennel, I heard a horrible retching noise!  Seeing as my other roommate was watching a horror movie in the same room, I asked her what that noise was.  Her response was that she thought it was Max.  I quickly jumped out of bed and found Max, vomiting white foam in his kennel.  After watching him vomit 3 times i tried getting him upstairs and outside.  There, he continued to vomit the white foam and appeared to be "foaming at the mouth."  

Knowing he was up-to-date on all his shots (including his rabies) I was terrified that he had found something that had poisoned him.  Thankfully Korissa was still at the house, so I quickly ran upstairs to her room and told her that Max was extremely sick.  Thinking I was overreacting, she came downstairs and saw what I was talking about.  Only in the minutes it took me to get Korissa and for us to come downstairs, the whole left side of his face had swelled up five times the normal size and was hard as a rock!

Immediately Korissa knew he was having an allergic reaction to something and began getting his things together to go to the emergency vet clinic on Gage.  While she gathered his things, I took his collar off in case his throat and neck started swelling as well.  Once in the car, I called the vet to let them know we were coming and poor Max's face had now started swelling on the right side and around his eyes.

I would be lying if I told you I wasn't slightly panicking by this point.

The vet, once seeing Max, laughed and knew he must have been stung by a bee or wasp.  Apparently some dogs are as allergic to them as humans are!  She injected him with some steroids and instructed us to give him Bennadryl for the next few days.  Right before leaving, our roommate that stayed at home called me a told me that she had found a honey bee on the back porch.  It apparently had no stinger and was dying.  

Yup, Max is deathly allergic to bees!  The picture above was taken less than 30 minutes after he was stung.  The vet said that if he had been stung and we had left not knowing that he had been stung, that his face probably would have swelled up to the point it killed him!  

Talk about a scary night!

This morning his face was completely swelled down and he was acting like his normal self.  Now we just have to spray the yard for stinging insects!

#BeesSuck!