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There you go.
[honks]
[rooster crows]
Man, you fixing the chase a camel.
You scared of a little--
I am.
And you'll get swollen out here in a minute.
I'm about to take your official country boy pass.
Down here in the South, we get all kinds of vermin.
Some of these pests can be pesky to the animals here.
VERNARD HODGES: Mosquitoes is a big thing.
TERRENCE FERGUSON: Yeah.
Mosquito bites the dog, six months later
you have a dog that is coughing and wheezing
and it has heartworms.
You know the ones I don't like.
Wasps.
VERNARD HODGES: I think I said wasp.
I mean, there was a 2,000 pound bull about to kill us.
I'd rather see the bull.
[laughs]
Well, let me ask you.
I got a question for you, checking
your country-ness here.
Do you know what is the treatment for a wasp sting?
Tobacco.
You have to chew tobacco and then you have to put it
on your wound and it's supposed to have some
anti-inflammatory properties.
My man.
If you don't know that, you ain't country.
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[whistling]
[dog barks]
Hey, Polly.
POLLY: Yes, sir?
I got a dog that's got a swollen eye on the right.
You got stung pretty good.
Uh oh.
We're having a pretty bad allergic reaction here.
NARRATOR: Queen the boxer is at Critter Fixer
after making some unpleasant acquaintances.
My five-year-old boxer, Queen, was stung
by a lot of yellow jackets.
I can't even determine how many at this point.
And she's having trouble breathing.
There were some big welts and then
they were developing all over her legs
then her eye was swelling.
She's our baby.
I'm worried.
I couldn't get her here fast enough.
You feel helpless.
You get stung pretty good.
That's one thing about Georgie.
These doggone wasps.
Thought you said yellow jacket.
Yellow jackets.
You know how yellow jackets are.
LESLIE SANNEMAN: We know we have a yellow jacket issue.
We bought a house recently.
There's a couple in the ground, couple of nests.
Queen stood there for a while and she was trying
to get something off her back.
And you know like flies around you?
There were so many I couldn't even count.
I am concerned she's going to go into shock.
Keeping respirations on this guy?
What happens is the dog gets stung, respiration stops,
the throat and trachea somehow collapse,
which I've seen happen.
Hoping is not that bad, but I want to make
sure it doesn't get there.
Respiration seems OK.
VERNARD HODGES: I guess, me and you to carry.
Let me get the high potency diphenhydramine.
Let me get one of the dex.
Get some fluids going.
NARRATOR: Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine used to relieve
severe allergic reactions while dexamethasone
relieves inflammation.
All right.
Let's get our fluids.
Hey, you should be feeling better soon.
Gotta leave them yellow jackets alone.
Let me get some neo with dex.
Just the cream.
They got you pretty good.
Does this seem like a happy dog, though.
Yeah super happy but I mean what got
urticaria swelling everywhere.
This is basically what we call urticaria,
or down here in Georgia, my grandmama
used to call it the hives.
So we got hives going on and that's
just the body's response.
Yeah something to soothe that a little bit.
The immune system responds to the antigens in basically
the sting, the body reacts, you get the swelling, the pain,
so I've given something for the swelling and pain.
We're going to kind of watch this dog
over the next few hours.
You feeling better?
Yeah, you're feeling better.
You're feeling better.
Hopefully the swelling will be down in a minute.
There.
I am turning this case over to in hosp hospitalization.
So I'm want respiration on this dog
every 10 minutes, just make sure that we
don't start breathing crazy.
Hopefully this dog feels better here in the next hour or so.
So we're going to monitor it and see how it goes.
But it looks like the swelling is starting to go down.
What do you think?
That's swelling going down?
Yeah, it is.
Her legs especially.
VERNARD HODGES: Yeah.
I think we got hit here in here.
OK.
Because that's where the biggest swelling was.
I put some cream on there, but that's why the swelling
is starting to go down.
So hopefully we'll watch it through the day
and you'll be fine.
I'm so worried about her.
Like you know, just until I hear that she's OK.
She's part of our family.
Hey, pumpkin.
It's OK.
I mean, she's the queen of our house.
Her name is fitting.
You want to be able to take care of them
and you can't and there's nothing I can do.
You just put them in someone else's hands
and you hope that they're taken care of.
All right, bye, baby.
I love you.
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