Sienna the Bee Eater

I swear, my dog does this. I’ll be sitting out in the yard with her drawing or reading or listening to music – PERFECTLY willing to throw the ball for her or something – and she’ll be over at that darn bush trying to eat the bees. When she was really little, she’d go after these little white moths that came out in the evening from the bushes and the window screens, then as she got a little older, she’d start chasing flies around the yard - sometimes with the ball in her mouth, so I don’t quite see the point seeing as she wouldn’t be able to snap them up with it in her way – and now she has progressed to bees. The bees in our yard seem to really like that one bush and there’s always a couple of them buzzing around it. So dear Sienna has taken to patrolling the area and snapping at them until she gets one. I KNOW they sting her, she quickly spits them out and shakes her head all around, but then she’ll just go and eat the darn thing off the ground where it is surely writhing and mangled from being bitten only moments ago! It’s like she gets a kick out of the sting, because she only goes after the bees now, no more flies or moths, and she wont even go after the slow-moving butterflies that flutter across our yard. I swear, I have no idea where she picked this up and I by no means encourage it, but she just keeps at it day after day, no matter how many times I pull her away from the darn bush and tell her to quit it. I fear she is setting her sights to even greater heights even as I type - she got one of those huge black carpenter bees the other day. I don’t think they sting, but still. But other than the fact that I fear for my dogs sanity, I see no other ill effects from all that bee-munching, so I don’t think it’s anything to be TOO concerned about. And someone told me that her mom’s German Shepherd did this same thing, so maybe it is just a breed thing.

… I kinda tried out a new way at conveying her marking than how I normally do. I don’t know how well it worked out, but no matter what I do it is hard to get it right – she has really blurry markings – not a clear-cut saddle marking like the breed standard.

…the photo of my yard was taken by ME.

EDIT: resized image.