My Little Raccoon Puppy

If you are a friend on Facebook you have probably heard part of this story.

A couple days ago we were watching TV when I looked over at our little dog, Bailee, and noticed something odd.



This is her cute little face normally. I love this pup!

It looked like she had been punched in the left eye.

All around her eye was swollen and you could really see her white skin under her black fur

I thought maybe she had something in her eye and had Jeff take a look.

We couldn't see anything and decided just to watch her

After a couple hours we realized both eyes were getting swollen and the left one was a lot worse

This was when I first noticed both eyes were swollen.

Jeff kept calling her his little raccoon puppy. Poor dog.

She was acting her normal hyper self.

We even went to the park and played fetch until they were both worn out.

Before we left Jeff gave her a Benadryl

We were used to doing this, since Oakley has major skin allergies in the Spring

A couple hours went by and it seemed like it was getting even worse

So I took to the internet to look at different causes and asked our dog friends for advice

I called the vet to get advice and see if they were still open she was turning off the phones as I called

She told me just to keep on the Benadryl to make it through the night and then if needed come in the morning

Around this time Jeff found the remnants of the first Benadryl on the kitchen floor, little stink

We gave her another Benadryl, making sure she actually ate it

You can tell it was getting worse and looked like fluid around the eye.
{Sorry bad picture, these were taken with my phone and she wiggles a lot}



 I was really worried, because I couldn't think of anything that she could have come in contact with out of the ordinary.

I started wondering if one of the other dogs in our community gave her something

Needless to say I treat my dogs like my babies and I was freaking out. Google didn't help either

We bought some eye drops for her and hoped that she'd get better

Though I couldn't tell if the Benadryl was helping at all

We went to bed and hoped for the best.

Throughout the night Bailee threw up a couple times.

Which is not something she has ever done

Her swelling had gone down and by morning it was almost completely gone.

Throughout the next day she acted normal, except she threw up about 3-4 times

She still was eating, drinking, and playing like normal

Vet's advice to fast for 12 hours and then for the following 12 hours only give small amounts of rice and boiled chicken.

We also continued the Benadryl for the next 24 hours to prevent any other complications.

Probable Diagnosis: bug bite or allergic reaction

Since we hadn't given her anything new or changed anything in our home I believe a bug bite

Since we moved back to Bountiful I have been traumatized by spiders

 I am terrified of them and they are everywhere. We see big ones at least every other day

Bountiful equals the land of the Spiders

I believe that my sweet little dog has now been attacked by one of these spiders.

Happy to have my little dog back to normal!