OAK HILLS – A swarm of bees surrounded the home of an Oak Hills woman, trapping her inside as she watched in horror as hundreds of bees attacked her two dogs outside, killing one.

“The worst thing for me was looking out the door and seeing Chewy looking up at me – ‘help me, let me in’ – and I couldn’t do it,” said the resident, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Linda.

Linda said she watched helplessly through the window as Chewy, a 15-year-old cocker mix, and her other dog looked for some sign of help.

The second dog, a boxer, was critically injured from bee stings and is recovering at home in the 12000 block of Stuveling Street in Oak Hills. Linda’s yellow Labrador retriever jumped into a pond on the property to escape the bees.

Joe Harris of Harris Termite and Pest Control said the bees were particularly angry – something that is becoming more and more common from Oak Hills to Pinion Hills.

“At Linda’s place those bees were very, very, very, very aggressive, extremely aggressive,” he said.

Harris is not sure what type of bees they are but they are aggressive enough that even in a protective bee suit, it was difficult to get close to the hive. It took several attempts before they were exterminated, Harris said.

Linda said she initially contacted a beekeeper to remove the hive on one of the columns of her portico outside the front door. But when her eldest son was stung, she decided they had to go.

One bee expert pounded on the column with a hammer, she said. That’s when the bees started showing aggressive tendencies and the keeper recommend calling an exterminator.

Shortly afterward, the bees began swarming and then they attacked the dogs. Harris said afterward, he received several other calls about bees swarming in the area.

“God was looking out for me that day,” Linda said, “because I called four different exterminators and none of them could come out for four or five hours and I was trapped in my house watching my animals die.”

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