A pair of dog owners are looking to take their neighbors to court after their four pooches were attacked and killed by an aggressive swam of bees that were allegedly kept and raised by residents nearby.
Daniel Giron and Rebecka Lopez say four of their six dogs were attacked by a swarm in the backyard of their Palmdale, California, home last Thursday.
Video footage captured on a Ring camera shows Rebecka running to get help for her dogs, two English bulldogs and two Doberman pinschers called Sansa, Pancake, Khaleesi and Drogo, while her husband was at work.
She was seen wailing and running back into her house in one shot, while another shows a firefighter who was called to deal with the situation coming in, as bees buzz around the camera.
While Rebecka and Daniel took their dogs to the vet, sadly they did not survive.
‘The house has been quiet. We’re missing four of our family. So, it’s been sad. Everybody has been sad,’ Rebecka told KCAL.
Rebecka Lopez (pictured) and her husband Daniel are suing their neighbors, and have accused them of raising the bees in their garden
The dogs were stung by the swarm of aggressive bees that were allegedly kept in their neighbour’s home
The couple were forced to bury their dogs in their back yard as they could not afford to cremate them after the expensive vet bills
A Ring doorbell captures a bee buzzing around as a firefighter came to help Rebecka and her dogs
The couple were forced to bury their four dogs in their back yard as they could not afford to cremate them following a string of expensive vet bills.
Flowers now mark where the dogs are buried.
‘I know it was hard for him, and it was just one by one by one that we had to bury,’ Rebecka said.
Rebecka and Daniel are now looking to sue their neighbors, who they say were raising the bees in their back yard.
A GoFundMe they set up to pay for the dogs’ medical bills has raised nearly $4,000 so far.
Earlier this year, a dog was hospitalized after it was stung by a swarm of bees over 800 times in southern California.
Chance, a pitbull mix, was hanging out with his owner Bryan Engen at their Lake Mathews home when Bryan stumbled upon the hive and the situation became uncontrollable.
The bees began aggressively attacking Chance, who ended up collapsing on the ground with blood pouring from his face.
He was taken to a nearby vet, where he was treated for fractures, among his other injuries.