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Tell us some dog stories!
What’s been going on for your dogs lately? My dog, Joy has been enjoying helping me farm-sit this week. Talk about enrichment! There’s alllllll kinds of great sniffs and snacks on this little hobby farm, with horses, a goat, two other dogs and a cat. Plus dog only knows what critters visit in the night. I’m sure glad Joy has a solid recall! How about your pups? What’s new?
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I found this very interesting…
A loud buzzing insect of some kind flew into my hair last week while I was picking up branches in the yard that came down from Ida. It seemed to be stuck (and/or angry). I tried to gently brush it away with a twig and when the buzzing finally stopped I was immediately and sharply stung on my other hand. The pain was searing. I ran into the house. It felt like there was a needle stuck through my palm.I didn’t sleep that night because the pain was so strong that I had to keep my hand elevated on a stack of pillows under a bag of ice. As soon as the ice warmed to not-freezing, the pain came back and I would get woken by it, get up and get a new bag from the freezer.
A week later I was picking up poop in the yard and came upon a very busy yellow jacket nest in the ground. Ahhh – that explains that. I moved away from it very quickly but I noticed my dogs were walking pretty close to it without a care in the world. I watched over the next few days and noticed that the dogs were doing all their normal activities in the area of the yard where that nest was. Hazel would be within a few feet of the nest hole, scratching her back in the grass with that cute wriggling motion dogs do with their paws in the air. And Lido would be at the corner of the yard, not right next to the hole, but pretty close to it – much closer than I would ever get again – barking deeply at whatever fox or other critter dared to be making noise in the brush.
The point is that the dogs and the yellow jackets seemed to have an understanding. You do your thing, we’ll do ours. They spoke an animal language that I was apparently not privy to.
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That IS very curious… and makes me remember the time one of my dogs stirred up a nest of ground hornets which then attacked en masse – myself, 3 dogs and my baby (okay, so this was decades ago!) as we abandoned the stroller and ran home! We were all stung multiple times. I never even saw the nest or what happened to create the attack – the dog who came running back to me with a swarm chasing her never told me the rest of the story! So, I don’t know what kind of paradise you’ve got in your backyard, but maybe hornets are nicer in NJ. lol – anyway, sorry you got stung! It HURTS!
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Ouch!!! Sorry you got stung, David! That is pretty interesting about your dogs and the stinging insects/yellow jackets not bothering each other. I wonder what we, as humans, do with our body language that disturbs them, even when we are oblivious to their existence (doing our own thing) around their nest?
Wondering if you used your dog’s body language and rolled around in the grass, like Hazel, if they would be after you?! I know you don’t want to find out!!!
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That is definitely not a test I’m ready to perform.
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My Shepherd Duchess, goes after any flying insects, sky raisins we call them lol. However, until now I never really noticed that the sky raisins have never instigated any contact. ???? I guess Duchess is simply a sky raisin bully! ????
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Let’s be fair… sky raisins are for eating, right? ????
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They absolutely are! However, those jalapeno sky raisins can pack quite the punch! ????????
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???? Peppery!
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