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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Not to mention moldy! ;o)
It's an issue... ecurbh's sinuses have been acting up, lots of pollens blooming in all this, because it's rather unseasonably warm too. We're even getting a few bugs around the light at night. Normally they're all gone now.
Haven't seen sign that the grass is growing yet though.
I'd hate to come across a coyote bigger than Grizzly! Heck, I'd hate to come across a coyote period, unless I was in a car or something.
For whatever reason we don't have ticks. I've seen two in my lifetime.
Boy, are you lucky then. Poor Ellie had them in her ear so bad last summer that it was pitiful. They must get really painful when they get in there because I couldn't even TOUCH her ear and if she ever bumped it on something or if Truly bumped it, the poor little thing would just about go into orbit. It got so big that it was about the size of a big gray grape and you could see it inside her little ear even through the hair. I tried to get a hold of it several times but she had such fits that I had to stop. I think that's why she gives me such fits about using the clippers on her ears now. I finally got some of that 40% permethrin spray and that killed them. I'll not let that happen again because she'll remember having ouchy ears for the rest of her life. This year's babies will get sprayed right off the bat.
Well, the pony and Cyn just clobbered that German Shorthair from next door that was wandering around this morning. I worried about her-him-it when it was wandering the store parking lot after you left... was going to see if I could take it home (I think that dog is supposed to be tied) but he-she-it wouldn't come to me, and went through the hollow and into the pasture where it at least wasn't about to be hit by a car.
I thought it had gone home, but I just heard a ruckus that included some barking and a squeal, and the two mares were going at it. They ran it all the way out of the pasture (on it's home side, luckily) and then for good measure, they all three went and threatened the black dog who now stays on his own side of the fence. They downed and rolled the shorthair a few times, so I imagine he-she-it is pretty bruised at the very least. The guy needs some fencing.
The one time I found a tick on my little Zulu was after a camping trip. We were home in the living room, and I saw it on her eyelid. I thought it was some kind of abcess or wart at first. I grabbed it between my fingernails and could tell it was a tick. I pulled a little, Zulu squealed, I looked at my fingers and saw it's little face and it's legs moving around and I freaked. I threw the thing in the air. I had no idea where it landed. So I spent the next couple hours with every product I could find at the store, spraying, vacuuming, finally left and bombed the place, just freaked to not know where that thing was! I'd never seen one! Since then we had one end up on the cat at the beach house. Just one, never again.
And Zulu always had a gouge and a couple missing eyelashes where it had been.
LOL!! I wouldn't have figured you for that reaction. You strike me as more of the calm-cool-collected type. Losing a tick in the house IS kinda creepy, coz you never know when they're gonna find you.
In the summer we have to remember to grab the cats as soon as they come in and comb them because they'll almost always have one or two clinging to their hair. We've found 'em in the bed, on the walls, all over the place. It's kinda gross, but it's just part of living in the South and having indoor-outdoor pets. I keep Frontline on the cats, but as you know, that doesn't keep them from getting on. I wish they'd come up with something that did that.
I appreciate that :~D I really try to be, but I guess I have a limit. It's not even all bugs. I'm not particularly freaked by spiders, for example... It was just THAT bug :~D
Now I can handle ticks any day over spiders. I grew up with dogs, and dogs having ticks were just a fact of life back then and the only way to get them off was to pull them off with your fingers. Then you either mashed them on the concrete with a rock or threw them in an old soup can full of gasoline to kill them. You could fill up a can pretty quick in the summertime. Kinda gross I know.
But Spiders kinda freak me out when they get on me. I don't mind looking at 'em, in fact I think they're kinda cool, but I don't want 'em ON me. I guess because there's so many Brown Recluses and Black Widows around here. We're just a regular cornucopia of insect life I guess. ;o)
Yeah, my riding buddies get a kick out of my screaming when we ride in the fall and the spiders seem to be able to build a web between one rider and the next. Getting an occupied spiderweb across the face is NOT my idea of fun!
LOL, ticks are just part of life around here. The only cure I ever found for them was chickens. Grizzly still gets them because he goes with me on rides. I land up with a few stuck on me every year.
But like Frog, I can't deal with spiders,,,yuk.
I'm tired today. Very busy. I did manage to get out of here for about an hour on Harley. But best of all I got both horses new runs put up:). I don't think you could see what I did with pictures, I'll try to get some tomorrow, I used those small rebard posts, and that yellow and black twine hot wire stuff. The runs are "L" shaped, they go around the back of the barn. I want'ed them big enough that once I plant grass I don't have to feel too bad about keeping the horses in them for several months. I'm dreading having to do that, but I don't have a choice if I want my pasture to grow.
Becky
I know how it is feeling like you're cooping them up so the pasture can grow.
When I have mine in the back forty (which is a couple acres, it's not small) they stand and look longingly over the gate at the main pasture. They really prefer it 'out there'.
Well, they're going to have to get use to it, (so am I:). I imagine they won't get to get out pretty much all summer, except for an hour or so here and there. I plan on doing this right, and spending a bit of money, so I've got to gear up to not be a softie and let them loose before it can handle it:) Any pasture I grow out here will be fragile, no matter what.
Becky
True, it takes awhile for the new grass to get tough. I think you can toughen it to a large extent by mowing it..... Not too short, but mowing it a couple times before you put them back on it.
It wasn't me you sent it to:')
All the snow melted around here too:') You still off? I just got home. I picked up the grandkids and fixin to go to church and then out to eat. I'm wanting enchiladas. Not sure about taking them in to a restaurant though. I may have figured how things work though. The 3 y/o was hitting the girl and his brother tattling and she was screaming. I told him to stop but he kept "touching" her. I finally told her the next time he hit her , that she could hit him back. I told her one time only and as hard as she could but just one time. Sudden silence. She's looking like "I won't get in trouble, the hitter very still like he was waiting and the 5 y/o watching very closely so he could tell me what was happening. They rode the rest of the way home like this. Ah....silence,
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