Piper, my mountain cur/beagle mix, is a wonderful dog. My husband brought her home to me from a shelter. Her previous owners just let her run loose, so she was picked up by the pound. When the pound called these owners, they told the pound to just keep her. In other words, they no longer wanted her.
That was heartbreaking for me. Piper is a wonderful dog, and I can’t imagine anyone who has a heart not wanting her. She wants to be loved and is affectionate beyond belief. I have no clue what she did while she was out there just wandering around, but I know one thing she did: she ate bees.
My other dog, Leesi, does not eat bees. She probably would like for all the bees to stay away. Permanently. A few weeks ago, she must have stepped on a bee because she let out a very loud yip at the same time she jumped straight up in the air. Her paw swelled up and she limped for about a week.
That same day, Piper was cautiously trying to pick something up that was in her dog bed. When I walked over and checked to see what it was, I found a bee. So she apparently hunts bees that somehow get inside the house too.
When we are outside, she will hunt them down. I don’t know if she was attacked by a bunch of them once or what, but she acts as though she is really pissed off at them, and it is her job to exterminate them all. Or who knows? Could be she just likes “spicy flying raisins.” She will patrol the entire back yard with her nose to the ground searching for them.
We do our best to keep the grass from growing too high. That cuts way down on the bee population in our yard, but it is almost summer in Kentucky and we still have bees. And she really does enjoy hunting them down and eating them.
She has to be immune to their stings. I sure wish I was. Or she has learned from the time when she was allowed to run free to eat them so that they don’t sting her.
Writing Prompts
Is there any way to keep Piper from eating and chasing bees? I guess I could be kept in a concrete room, but what fun would that be? Write a story where this is done, but Piper figures out how to get out of her prison, because that is what it would be to her, and run free again among the trees and in the grass.
What happened to Piper when she was out wandering around? Was she attacked by a horde of bees?
Maybe she has a vendetta against one particular bee that stung her while she was running wild and free. Is she looking for that particular bee?
Or was she stung by just a single bee? Did this bee sting give her some sort of super power?
In her doggy vision, do the bees glow and really stand out to her? Do they taunt her?
