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04-02-2012, 05:54 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Where the deer and the antelope play
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| Are the trees causing anybody else problems this spring? Uggg, we have a tree that's putting off sticky little seed thingies, and they are getting stuck up in between my girls' paws. Then, when they come in from playing they sit and lick, and pull trying to get them out but when they do they then get stuck in their beards. Uggg! Then I'm the meanie that has to pull it out, which they don't like. This is the first time in 5 years since we've had the girls we've had this problem with that tree. Why this year? I don't even know what kind of tree it is, something native to KS, maybe an ASH... Good thing this only lasts a couple of weeks or the tree might have to go!
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04-02-2012, 06:05 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Chessington, Surrey, UK
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| Sorry, I'm not in Kansas so I can't answer your question! All I DO know is, we have those kind of sticky shedding trees over here, and they're a complete nightmare...it's strange how it's not every year, but thank goodness it isn't! A few years back, a whole clump of them got really stuck in our Schnauzers paw - really worked right in. I tried and tried but couldn't get the 'highest' ones out Bathing, tweezers - nothing would budge them. We ended up at the vet's having to have them cut out aaargh! Quite a lot of money later, I decided to keep him away from those trees... Sally + Harry x |
04-02-2012, 06:07 AM | #3 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Northern Virginia
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| YESSSSSS!! I visited my parent's house a couple weekends ago, and they had the same thing. It was obnoxious!! It was all in their paws and fur! I had to pick them out by hand, and used a wipe just in case. Usually taking the dogs out is relatively enjoyable, but not with that tree! I tried to avoid it, but they were everywhere!!
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04-02-2012, 06:10 AM | #4 |
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| I dont have a tree that does this however I have a weed in my yard that does and I cant find it and it drives me crazy when mine come in with them in their fur
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04-02-2012, 06:22 AM | #5 | |
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04-02-2012, 06:59 PM | #6 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: MS
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| I feel your frustration... when we go to Louisiana, I give the girls paws a really good trim, and give them what I call a country cut (cut their long halfway up their little legs) so they aren't little brooms picking up all the tiny round cocklebur looking things off the ground. I still have to give the a once-over when we go inside, but they only pick up a few instead of being covered
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04-02-2012, 08:28 PM | #7 |
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| Oh honey, I feel for you as I too am having a devil of a time keeping my little ones cleaned off! We have an acre to walk around on, so at different times different trees or plants shed "stickies" all over the ground and I have to recall where we cannot walk! I do not know what they are or the names of trees, but right now we have a string thing that covers the ground and I have to comb 5 Yorkies when we come in, 3 times a day. The stickies cover my deck twice a day and I have to sweep it off twice....UGH!!!!
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04-02-2012, 09:03 PM | #8 | |
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04-03-2012, 05:25 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Shelly, I leave a brush by the backdoor for just this purpose. Each gets swooped up & a quick botton half brush to remove whatever they picked up while outside. I have a huge oak that drops pollen/seed pods.
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04-03-2012, 05:32 AM | #10 |
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| I don't have any trees that do this but I do know the tree you are talking about. Instead mine pick up some sticky things from the ground. Some type of plant or weed I guess that has this stupid sticky seeds. And there will be a bunch of them every time. That on top of the nice wet grass right now makes it such a joy to let them go outside.
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04-03-2012, 09:57 AM | #11 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Elberta, AL USA
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| Right now, in coastal Alabama, I'm fighting staying ahead of all the pollen in the air. Poor Neo is miserable as he is allergic to just about everything that grows around here, and Connor is also scratching more since Spring has sprung! This looks to be a "season from Hell" as far as Nature is concerned, and more frequent baths and haircuts are definitely in order in my household! |
04-03-2012, 10:05 AM | #12 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Cave Junction, Oregon USA
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| Allergies? Yes!!! We live on 5 acres of natural growth evergreens (fir & pine) and Bad Leroy Brown seems to attract the pitch on his pads and between his toes. This Spring, the Yew has been exploding pollen right in front of my eyes!!!! it's incredible!! . . . . His favorite spot to pee is under our big Yew tree and he tends to hike his leg on the lower branches (plus he tends to 'drag' while going thru the lawn) and I'm thinking that's why he's beginning to break out with tiny sores on his underside . . . probably allergies. Time to be extra vigilant by also wiping him down when he comes inside.
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04-03-2012, 10:29 AM | #13 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Pooler, GA USA
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| We have pollen issues here. Took Corky to the vet because of all of the sneezing. His mommy has been wiping him down when he comes in from his walks. |
04-03-2012, 10:33 AM | #14 |
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| Could you be talking about beggar's lice or stick-tights? We have a weed around here and they make these small things that stick to whatever touches them. A real pain.
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04-03-2012, 10:34 AM | #15 | |
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Do you wipe him down with plain water? or alcohol? or something else????
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