burdocks
I guess he had the "kids" outside while he was doing a little work and they climbed the little hill in the side yard. I have mowed down everything befroe the winter and before a got Bella. I must have missed picking up a few burdock plants and now with the snow melted she found them. It took me a hour to get them all out and she must have been so upset and uncomfortable with them on her she just laid on the floor with me and didn't move a muscle  I had to use a rake to slowly work the things out of her chin hairs and they were so tight against her lip I though she might lose it. For all those with issue and the front paws try holding the hair at the base with one hand and work the hair with your other hand so there is not tugging. That was the only way I could get that nasty stuff out of Bella's hair near her lips.
I went out and nearly killed myself trying to dig out the two burdock plants I missed. Slipped in the mud trying to dig on a slope  I was determined not to have that happen again She was so unhappy all stuck together like that hopefully she won't play on the hill again |
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| Burdocks are certainly in the list of top seed capsules to avoid with hairy dogs. Been there, done that. Start grubbing those suckers out next spring as soon as visible! Ours are gone!!
Congrats on your patience! |
Okay, what is a burdock plant?  |
| they are these nasty plants that have big leaves and pods with small barbs. So needless to say a dog with hair walks by and the pods when dry get pull off the plant and stuck to the dog. They stick to anything... human hair, gloves, pants you get the picture. Sheepdog hair and the undercoat OH NO the things just get worse as the pupper tries to get them off of themselves. She may pull it off her paw and now the ?#$%! thing is stuck to the chin hair, then to the ears.
It is Chemical warfare this spring Us (Bella and Me) against them and they are going down hard Hopefully  |
| http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/singlerecord.asp?id=900
click on the brown picture to enlarge and view the hair grabbing seed head |
| We battle them here all the time. Me and Roundup, shovel and any tool I can grab! They look innocent when they start - kind of like a little rhubarb plant.
And as mentioned in the link - they reduce the value of the wool, so we battle it for sheep as well! |
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