Thistle! #$*(@#)#$&#$!!!!

[wishiwere]

Just spent a freaking hour butching my twins!

Their hair I mean! THISTLE! WET AND so hard to get out! Some I could only cut out! Poor girls like a bad hair day and it won't be time for a trim for another month! UGH!

And they THOUGHT They'd be going back out tonight! Not on my watch they aren't!

Sorry, just had to vent!

[patsue53]

I feel your pain! When my Scottie would get loose he'd almost always come home with cockleburrs stuck all over his muzzle and around his neck. What a pain in the butt!

[wishiwere]

The poor thing. SHe had about 10 on each foot, on her belly, butski, even her back. She hunts the bunnies into the thistle. She doesn't catch them anymore as she's 14, and nearly blind and deaf........but at 14, that dog can scout with the best of them! LOL

Just found one on her belly I either didn't see, or she picked up off her bed Ididn't know was there. And yes, those floppy ears (one actually) was covered in them!

She's sound asleep now, I think I traumatized her cutting her hair off with a scissors! Poor baby..........the other didn't end up with up with more than hand full, thank heavens! Betsy had at least 50 of them on her! She was a walking pincushion!

[PeggyC]

I hear you! I've had to cut them out of my sheltie's fur more than once. *sigh* But I guess its better than skunk smell.

[wishiwere]

Oh my yes! We've never seen skunks around here, so hopefully won't! LOL

Although 2-3 summers ago this same twin corraled 3 baby (about 8 week old) raccoons up to the back door from the gardens out back. Not sure if she planned on bringing them, but we corraled them and had them relocated. It was broad daylight and no mom in site. They were precious, till I gave them baths! Looked like drowned rodents then! UGH

And no, these pics are not upside down. These things walked the ceiling of the cage with ease!

[Tundra_Queen]

My dog ate one of them once and almost choked to death! I had to give it the hymlick maneuver sp. That was down right scary!!! I then called the emerg vet # and he told me to give him some butter to help it go down.
Debbie

[wishiwere]

Oh my! Thank heavens, other than a rabbit and that toad they went after, they've never eaten another animal (I know of anyway)! UCKY Can't imagine that! YUCK!

[janet]

Um, Jane, I think maybe Debbie is talking about her dog eating burrs and choking, not raccoons. Somehow I don't think butter would do much to help a 'coon go down easier! (Now Lobster is a whole 'nother story!! )

We had a rescue horse once that had more thistles, burrs and sticks in his mane and tail than you can ever imagine. Poor thing. His tail was a solid mass of pricker stuff...took us weeks of work to get it all out.

[patsue53]

I thought Debbie meant the dog choked on a raccoon too! HOO HOOO HOOOO! I'm wiping tears from my eyes!!

[wishiwere]

Thanks Patsue, I was beginning to feel the fool! A fool always enjoys company, isn't that what they say!

Yuck, why would they eat thistle, silly animals!

The girls don't look as bad today after brushing them out, their hair is long enough to cover most of the mess made last night, TH!

[Tundra_Queen]

Sorry, yes I meant burrs My dog was only 10lbs so no raccoons for him and we don't have raccoons up here either.

Debbie

[wishiwere]

NP Debbie, guess I was cruising through post a little fast and didn't stop to read carefully But that would hurt, poor baby. Bet he didn't do repeat performance on that one!

[Tundra_Queen]

Jane,
It scared us both, cause he couldn't breathe. I picked him up and ran home, luckily we were just around the block.

[impatience]

Try Pam cooking spray. The burrs will comb right out!!!