Bees build nest in starving dog

East Pennsboro Police Chief Dennis McMaster has seen a lot of horrible things in his long career as a police officer.

But he says nothing was more shocking than seeing bees flying in and out of an open tumor in the side of a dog named Merrick.

McMaster says the insects had built a nest in the 9-year-old yellow Labrador retriever found June 26 by a letter carrier in the 300 block of West Perry Street.

Officers who responded to the report found a dog so emaciated that its rib cage was in plain view, the chief says.

"It could not stand up ... Its breathing was labored ... He was literally skin and bones."

The township animal control officer took the dog to the West Shore shelter of the Humane Society of the Harrisburg Area. The next day, Merrick died while en route to a veterinarian appointment at the society’s East Shore shelter.
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