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1deadeye
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Bee sting?

Ok. Lets start with he's been to the vet and goes back Fri. to have it lanced and possibly opened up depending on what happens from that.
What I have is a 7 month old pup. He was fine when I loaded him into the box and then things seemed to have changed. First he wouldn't stick his head out to be collared up. Then he wouldn't come out to hunt. Then in the woods he wouldn't join in at the tree. We were out an hour. I get home. He still wouldn't come out of the box. That's when I saw his neck was swollen.
The vet and I couldn't find a punture wound. He checked to make sure the saliva gland wasn't broke. It wasn't. Blood works say's he is fighting a nasty infection. He's loaded up on antibiotics and antihistimines'.

So I'm wondering maybe a bee sting. I know there's Lymph nodes in the neck. I'm wondering if anybody else has had something like this from a bee sting or ???
Thanks for your help.

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robgregory
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WOW!!!!!!

1deadeye,if seems to me that thats more than a bee sting.If in fact it IS a sting,maybe from a hornet possibly.I'm thinkin' more like abite from poisonous spider or somethin'.But,the swelling seems too big for even that in my opinion.I don't really know,but please keep us posted.I myself would like to know.Best of luck to you.
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railroad
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my pup got bit and looked a lot like that. we figured it was a spider. took a while to heal up and a boat load meds. had to lance it and keep a drain in it

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james gardner
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we had 2 hounds have something similar happen at different times, took first dog to vet and they thought it was a spider bite. vet gave some medicine and it got better in a week or so, second dog had it happen a couple weeks later. both dogs heads swelled up. we went to inspecting kennels closely and found lots of brown widow spiders in the top corners of the dog houses. i guess thats why they were bit on head. check your pens and dog box, now that i know what these spiders are i find them everywhere. good luck

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Priscilla Hooks
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OMG - that is one nasty bite - whatever bite it is. Mine got a wasp sting last week and a couple doses of benadryl and she was good to go. I am not sure this is a bee sting. Looks alot nastier than that to me. Good luck with whatever it is.

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No Poisonous snakes or spiders in the whole state? OMG - I'm moving to WI!! Like Tomorrow!!

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robgregory
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Good News knls,

That sounds real good to me too until I start thinkin' about the winters.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!LOL!
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Buckshot
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Looks like puppy strangles.

Here is a pic of one Susie's hounds when she had one with it.

http://www.coondawgs.com/forum/view...=26&t=20430

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Chiggers
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Had a pup do the same thing, took to the vet, vet gave benadryl , said it was a Bee Sting and ask for a 1oo dollars, went down in 4 hours. Then I remembered getting stung myself by a Yellowjacket cleaning out a fence line and the Pup was with me.

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Priscilla Hooks
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Buckshot - I think you should charge for that! 2nd time lately I have seen a vet miss a diagnosis. Had a vet tell me a dog was not pregnant that is now about to POP with pups! LOTS of pups on top of that!! LOL!!

$50 ought to cover it dead eye!! LOL! j/k

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quote:
Originally posted by Buckshot
Looks like puppy strangles.

Here is a pic of one Susie's hounds when she had one with it.

http://www.coondawgs.com/forum/view...=26&t=20430

Could be I have one thats four months old that had what the Vet said was puppy strangles. his eyes were swollen until the red inside lining was hanging out all around his eye ball. and on both sides of his neck were two hard lumps that was about the size of an egg cut in halves.

The Vet gave me a run of Cephalexin 500 mg, and prednisone 20 mg, and a tube of Neopolybacimyx Oint for his eyes.

The vet must have known what he was talking about, after 14 days his eyes were completely back in shape. and the knots under his neck were gone, but his nose and bottom jaws swelled back up looked like he had a worst case of mange. carried him back three more weeks of the same medicine, but he looking more like a dog now. trying to keep my hope up.

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jbpriest
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Hope everything gets better soon for you all.

I don't know if this link will help or not, but if does have some educational points.
http://www.petplace.com/dogs/puppy-strangles/page1.aspx

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TreeTex
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ok i gotta ask. What the heck is "puppy strangles" ?

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jbpriest
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See the link I added later to my last slide.

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dsodshounds
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purchased a pup from a local friend... brought her home.. put her in a box that wasnt being used and went up an hour later and had the same problem... never saw any bee's but i thought she mite have been allergic to something. maybe it was a spider now that its been mentioned. i returned her because it kept flaring up.

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BIGCASTLEDAWGS
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GROSS!

quote:
Originally posted by 1deadeye
Just talked to the vet. He said it's not puppy strangles. He suspects it was a spider bite. The lump was full of blood. So he drained it and put a drain tube in it to help it heal.
Time to bomb the houses. A FRICKING spider bite!!!! Geez

Scott

GAG... Gosh I hate spiders so much... was in the infirmary as a kid...for a week from spider bites... I ALWAYS get bad reactions... I learned early on to lance a spider bit RIGHT away since I'm infection proned in the bites... thank GAWD I never had one get like that...
did I say how much I hate spiders????? LOL.. I will now have nightmares....

Hope that pup heals up fast... Poor guy... I imagine it was quite sore... YUCK....
Give him a pat from me, Heather

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quote:
Originally posted by 1deadeye
Thanks for the reply's. I'm in Wi. So there are no poisonous spiders or snakes here. The worse spider here is the wolf spider. They do bite. I've already been through the kennels, house and dog box several times. I've decided to bomb the house and box to be safe.
This all happened with in an hour. That's why we're stumped.

Scott

Wrong! the Brown Recluse Spider is prevalant in WI. I can remember going to a Boy Scout camp there when I was a kid. They were everywhere near the biffy.
I'm sure you have Timber Rattlers and Massasauga's as well... both venomous rattle snakes.

Best of luck with your dog.

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terry willford
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looks like a swollen lymph node. a spider bite usually starts opening and oozing pus and develops a hole pretty quick. I had one with that problem once and lanced a whole bunch of pus out of it.

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Dan Dogs
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i had a dog like that..used benadryl and amoxcicillian..he swollowed a bumble bee...

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