Stings on animals

Stings can affect animals just the same as they can humans. It may be that there is an insect sting, a smaller midge, a hornet, wasps, or bees. How we deal with them will be different.

Bee stings

• sting remains and can pulsate, pumping more toxin for anything up to two or three minutes
• it is important to remove the sting as quickly as possible
• the sting should be removed by scrapping not pulling as this will inject all of the remaining poison in the stinger, into the animal making it worse
• a credit card is ideal for removing stings
• take care, your pet is in pain and may react aggressively
• if you know your pet may have a severe reaction to the sting or believe that your pet is reacting badly, take them to the vet.