OHMIDOG! : Another good reason not to chain your dog

A North Carolina woman came home last week to find her dog covered by hundreds of bees.

Mika, a 4-year-old mixed breed, died from the stings.

He’d been left chained to his dog house and was unable to escape swarming bees from a farm next door, officials in Franklin County said.

“I wish I would have come home and he would have already passed away so that I didn’t have to see him passing away in front of me,” the dog’s owner, Ashley Seagroves told WRAL.

Seagroves said the bees were kept on a neighbor’s farm to help pollenate crops.

Jeffrey Lee, who rents the bees to the farm’s owner, had moved the bees on the Monday of the attack.

“I’m just truly sorry about the whole situation,” said Lee, who added he thought the neighboring house had been abandoned. “If I knew there was a dog there, I would have moved the bees differently … It was a lack of communication.”

WRAL reports the case remains under investigation by animal control officials, and that the state Department of Agriculture is testing the bees to figure out why they acted so aggressively.

Franklin County Animal Control Director Taylor Bartholomew said the dog’s death was the first of its type in the county, to his knowledge. The Franklin County Animal Shelter director gave Seagroves a free puppy to try to make up for the loss.

Seagroves indicated she didn’t feel the matter was resolved: “We don’t feel like it’s over because we lost a part of our family and I believe that is worth something.”

Tethering one’s dog (but not one’s family members) is legal in Franklin County.


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...................BS, if the dog was in a kennel the same thing would of happened.