Yesterday I was mowing flowering weeds along a fence line. The Pinker off the tractor following along, hunting for stunned and squashed mice.
He was attacked by a nest of hornets, had 5 or 6 welts on face and chest, significant swelling, totally freaked out --
It's good to have benadryl on hand. Of course I didn't have any, so gave him
prednisone, which worked--but the benadryl would have been the drug of choice.
So sorry to hear Pinker got attacked. I hope he will be all better soon. That's a really good reminder for all of us, Betty, to keep the Benadryl on hand. I just did a little mental inventory as I read your post, and I do have some.
I had a dog many years ago who got attacked by hornets or wasps in the yard. From that point on, he was very wary of them. Every once in a while, one would get inside the house. He would keep his distance, but bark at them as they crawled on the window or wherever. I could be at the other end of the house and hear him and I knew that was his special "There's a wasp in the house!" bark.
Betty, for the benefit of those who may not know, can you give us a refresher on the appropriate dose of Benadryl for dogs?
Thanks for asking-- the 4 mg of methylpredisilone ( left-over prescription from a hornet experience I had a few yrs ago) eliminated the swellings in just a few hrs, a huge dose for his size, but he was swelling up all over, he needed it.
Physically fine, now we have bug phobia, snaps the air and gets slinky.. When we went to check cattle yesterday he didn't want to get out of the pickup-and coming down the ridge road I almost ran over him because he stopped in front of the pickup while trying to kill a deer fly that had landed on his butt.
I saw the hornets nest while baling yesterday-- an evil looking paper wasp nest only a foot off the ground, glued to the welded wire fence I was mowing next to.
Farm dog life is dangerous, really, there's a lot to learn.
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