Posted on 09/21/2008 1:08:50 PM PDT by fanfan
LOL, I dig yer vindictiveness!
Getting ready to add my own tale of yallerjacket assassination here shortly...
Too late to be of any assistance to you, fanfan, but as you’ve already learned, Benadryl or the generic equivalent is good to have on hand. As one of my dogs has an allergy to rabies vaccinations, and likely others as well, the vet has me dose her with 2 caplets 30 minutes before the shot, then 2 more every six or eight hours until maybe eighteen hours have passed. This dog is 47 lbs, and until this thread, I didn’t know it was so safe for dogs to take.
When it comes to yellowjacket nests, my usual method of discovery is by mowing over them. Now, I’d be perfectly happy to leave them alone if they’d return the favor, but what they actually do is declare jihad on me. If’n ya look real close, they’re wearing matted black beards and screaming in gutteral wee voices. Ne’ermind, you don’t wanna get that close to ‘em.
(Er, this is why I keep Benedryl handy during mowing season.)
Anyways, that’s excuse to get off the mower for a while, allowing them to chill out and the sun to set. I don’t wait till I need a light to relocate their hole in the ground, just till dusk, with ambient light in the sky.
Instead of some special, expensive chemical (not to detract from the methods of others), I use the tools I got. I creep up on the little bastages with a funnel, a cup of gas and a dab of dirt poised on the tip of the shovel. Plunge the funnel into the hole and pour in the gas, Maynard!
The gas pooled in the funnel takes a while to soak all the way into their tunnels. I like to imagine their little buggy screams of horror as
their wings melt [Clint-Eastwood-voice] cleeeeeeeeean off. [/Clint-Eastwood-voice]
(I told you I’m allergic, right?)
Soon’s the funnel’s drained into the hole, I tip the dirt over the deathpit and pat it down. Whatever survives the liquid fuel won’t survive the fumes, and now they’re neatly buried.
Like they never even existed.
Muahahahahahahahaha!
i AM SO GLAD YOUR DOGGIE IS OK.
I give my pupster Benydryl sometimes if she has an itching problem that is just irritation and or I used to give it to her to calm her down in thunderstorms. ( now she gets valium RX’d by my vet, who is a wonderful person ).
I understand completely you were upset. When my pup is sick...ALL BETS ARE OFF! ...and no true dog lover would disagree. Lets give your hubby the benefit of the doubt and hope he was just trying to keep you calm ( uh, well...).
these little persons in a fur coat are so adorable, we just want them to be happy and ok all the time.
My doggie is 13 and has arthritis. she gets some meds and of course the glucosamine in the food...BUT what really has helped her is therapeutic massage. she gets a massage ( my friend is a massage therapist and gives me a break on it) every other week or so. It really helps her.
Things that go BOOM are neato.
Long as it’s not your car or house, I mean.
(We like things that go BOOM! too. Hubby was a charter member of Pyrotechnics Guild International, and we used to go to their conventions. Lots of people having fun making things go BOOM! The club is still around, but it was one of the things we lost touch with when we started having children . . . )
Heh, heh...
My neighbor whose land extends behind mine bought out a sporting clay club. I’m not usually the one making things go BOOM, but it’s a sound I associate with home.
Our hunting retriever club hosts a sporting clays shoot every August (when it's really too hot to run the dogs except in water and early in the morning). We're getting better at it, in the time left over from Cowboy Action Shooting.
What’s the diff between skeet & clays?
He has over a few friends and their friends, people he trusts to respect the land. Probably collects just enough to pay the property taxes.
Am I the only one who thinks you should be driving like mad to the vet instead of wasting time, and posting to freerepublic?
Usually my first action would be to go to the VET!
So anyone who lives more than 3 minutes from their vet is an irresponsible pet owner?
Many FReepers live WAY out in the sticks, FRiend. We’re talking HOURS of travel to get to any semblance of civilization or medical aid.
Rather than ASSume that everyone lives within a 3 minute walk to their vet (anything further being “irresponsible” according to what has been posted by someone here), why not offer some relevant advice, or even simple support, as opposed to the unwarranted and insulting lecture given?
Fanfan: Just so you know, my 25 pound pekepom/sheltie routinely gets stung while eating wasps and yellow jackets. He’s fine, even after repeated stings.
His “mentor” regarding flying critters was a lab/whippet/pitbull who at the age of 4 months fell into a wasps’ nest and was stung literally hundreds of times. She survived to eat double her weight in those things, and though she’s been gone 6 years now, her protege’ still honours her memory daily during bug season.
God Bless, and take care.
I guess a phone call to an emergency vet service for professional advice was out of the question.
He is fine, with just a few bumps.
Here is a picture of one of the (now dead) bees.
AnAmericanMother, this is one of them, (what's left of it, anyway), and I think you're right...a yellow jacket?
Anyway, Rush ate his dinner last night, and seems fine this morning.
Thanks again to everyone who helped me yesterday!
FReepers Rule!!!
Good for you and your pooch. That wasn’t mentioned in the initial thread, thus my response.
Good morning everyone.
Ping to update at #133.
Rush is fine.
Thank you all so much for your help!
So very glad to hear the good news.
I’m very glad The Great One is fine. They do know how to scare the dickens out of us, don’t they?
Post #26, but that’s OK.
Thanks for caring.
:-)
My bad — missed that part (slapping forehead)
You've got that right!
The house was full of bees, and we were madly trying to kill them, before I noticed the dog kept going to the basement.....I followed him to find him in the shower. It took me a min. to figure out what he wanted....."Give me a bath, Mom! I'm covered in bees!"
I started the shower, and the bees just started falling out of his fur! LOL, poor guy.
(I can laugh, now.)
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