Posted on 04/24/2016 5:01:26 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Maybe it was a reaction to the flea treatment after all. Hmmm.
Since you have the day off, did you happen to check the owl cam and see the osprey pair that visited the nest a couple of hours ago? I’m using the DVR cam, watching them now. Maybe they’ll move in this year.
Holy cow, they’re vocal! Kittehs are on alert. LOL
No I missed that segment! I could kick myself!
You can still catch them. Just go back to a little after noon, and they were there for about a half hour.
http://landingsbirdcam.com/cam-2-dvr-test/
One of our neighbors put some mothballs on his lawn...I think she may have eaten one of them. I looked it up, and the symptoms were the same.
I am going to have to have a talk with the neighbor.
The neighbor must have moles. I use mothballs on the varmints, too, but I stuff them into the tunnels.
I had no idea dogs would eat them. YUCK!! They must taste nasty!
But if he put mothballs out and Lynn-Dah’s symptoms are those from eating them, there’s a good chance she did.
We have woods across the street, so we have mice, moles, foxes, raccoons, and coyotes.
There must be a better way of dealing with them than little balls of concentrated poison that look like breath mints!
Anyway, what he does on his own lawn is his business, but he put some out in the woods as well.
I think that is where Lynn-Dah got one.
And, according to the Internet, ONE is all it takes to be fatal, especially to an elderly dog.
We live in the country, on a farm, and have all the same critters you mentioned and then some.
I’ve been at war with moles because their tunnels are all over the yard and I’ve twisted my ankles more than once by stepping on them. Hit them at the right angle and OUCH. They’ve also killed several plants and flower bulbs.
I got nowhere until someone mentioned mothballs. But they don’t go on top of the ground. They go inside the tunnels.
We don’t have to worry about the cats digging them up because they hate the smell of mothballs.
I think they may also work to deter deer and maybe that’s why he’s placed them on the ground. It would also explain why he put them in the woods. But if the woods aren’t his property, he shouldn’t do it. If they are his property, there isn’t much you can do except keep an eye on Lynn-Dah and make sure she doesn’t go to the woods.
Well, the woods are part of the community, so we all own them, so to speak. And they are part of the “watershed for the Public Water Supply”, so he really shouldn’t.
However, the critters can be very pesky, so I do understand his motives. I keep a tighter leash on Lynn-Dah when we walk past his house though. He is actually a nice guy, and would most probably be appalled when i tell him what Lynn-Dah suffered as a result of his “carelessness”.
I’ll be nice about it though, after all I am the n00b in the neighborhood.
Aaaaaah, no one’s and everyone’s woods. He really shouldn’t put the mothballs out there then.
Indeed, critters are pesky. Here, we have a major problem with deer eating our corn and soybeans in the fields and it puts a dent in the yield. But we don’t hunt them or allow hunting on our farm. There are plenty of hunters around the area who keep the numbers down a little.
Coyotes kill livestock and pets and I have NO love for them at all. We’ve lost a few cats to them and we DO allow friends to hunt them.
I’m a nature lover and love watching it in action. But when some cross the line .....
Messin’ with my kittehs is definitely crossing it! LOL!
Yeah, go easy on the neighbor since he’s a nice fella. He’ll probably go to the woods and pick up all the mothballs he can find. He probably had no clue dogs might eat them and what it would do to them. He was just trying to keep deer away with the smell.
I’m glad Lynn-Dah is doing so much better now. That was a close call.
Indeed. I am not angry with the neighbor, because he probably thought he was helping the community by repelling the critters.
But 80% of our community have pets, and we love ‘em so!
He’ll probably be a lot more careful once he realizes there’s a problem with his method of helping. It might be the first year he tried it.
Glad you enjoyed the story of our hero, John Ripley.
Yes. Either that, or the first time someone’s pet was harmed.
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