Hobbit Posted November 6, 2002 Share Posted November 6, 2002 :o :o AND imagine the size of the goat pills!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 7, 2002 Share Posted November 7, 2002 :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bk_blue Posted November 15, 2002 Author Share Posted November 15, 2002 [quote name='corgilady']ahem.....I hate to stick my hillbilly nose into this elite discussion....but I have a little bitty ol' question. The word kelpie looks to me like it would be pronounced "kel-pee". However, in celtic music we have a tune we play, called Song of the Kelpie. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE, pronounces it "kel-PIE"(long "I" sound). Do we assume the song refers to the dog? what is the pronunciation? thanks![/quote] Corgi, just thought you might want to know that "kelpie" means "watersprite" in Gaelic. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowlabsrule Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 WOW that is a BIG difference between the working vs. show!!! Question... do the working dog is Australia encounter poison snakes that often?? Just wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowlabsrule Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 Great picture and story! Some friend's of ours had boers and they were kindy mean when they wanted their food! Pushy too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 [quote name='yellowlabsrule']WOW that is a BIG difference between the working vs. show!!! Question... do the working dog is Australia encounter poison snakes that often?? Just wondering.[/quote] I can't speak for Australia, but they encounter Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, Coral Snakes here in Texas. We are overran with Copperhead snakes! And sometimes the dogs get bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowlabsrule Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 What do you do when they get bit? Take them to the vet, but what if your out in the forest or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowlabsrule Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 We go out with Winnie (my lab) and our horses and one time we encountered rattlers, but luckily Winnie didn't get bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bk_blue Posted November 17, 2002 Author Share Posted November 17, 2002 Yellowlabs, the tiger snake is common in the outer suburbs of the big cities, and also wherever there's water. I try not to walk my dog near the creek or indeed anywhere with long grass in summer. We had snakes up on the sports campus of my old school, was quite interesting to see how the teachers coped with 70 screaming teenage girls :wink: I would assume that working dogs would encounter snakes quite often in the bush, there are certainly enough snakes to go round but I think snakes are more scared of people/dogs than we are of them, so maybe they just try to crawl away? (there are lots of poisonous snakes here, I think Aust has almost all of the top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world... ) Dogs are pretty smart though so I would imagine they might try and avoid them as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 Upon first encounter --- they harrass the heck out of the snake and usually get bit. Change usually to, just about all the time get bit. We do the same thing that the vet does --- I give them a shot of Dexamethasone, or "Dex" for the swelling; 2 Benadryl gel caps; and wash the bite with betadine soap. Normally, the bites are late in the evening, on a Friday night, a holiday, or a weekend.....or any time when the vet is NOT available. I swear these dogs know when the vet is out of town. The ones that have been bitten, usually stay away from them from now on. They recognize the smell, know them by sight and try to avoid their painfull bite. We have an old Heeler that hates snakes and will go out of her way to seek them out and kill them. She has been bitten numerous times, it's a miracle that she hasn't died. We have to keep her in the yard to keep her from hunting them down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 [quote name='bk_blue']there are lots of poisonous snakes here, I think Aust has almost all of the top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world... [/quote] You guys can go on being the poisonous snake capital of the world. It's amazing, really....think about it. One country has all the snakes that will kill you, when another country (place) doesn't have any. Sounds like a conspiracy to me! :lol: :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bk_blue Posted November 18, 2002 Author Share Posted November 18, 2002 :wink: well, we don't have anything else interesting here...! Except spiders, now I could tell you tales about SPIDERS... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 :o Spiders are okay, as long as they stay on their web and behave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bk_blue Posted November 18, 2002 Author Share Posted November 18, 2002 :bad-words: GET BACK ON YOUR WEB YOU LITTLE B*STARD, OR I'LL SHOOT... :snipersmile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 :o :o :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 I have a story about a tarantula...Dog was barking in the back..Went to check on it... Needless to say I was stuck on a dog house for 15 minutes as a tarantula stood on its hindlegs ready to pounce on me (At least that is what it looked like to me :o ) while the dog ran around barking...OHHHH Scary!!! Everyone else laughed!! :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 Girl you are from Tarantula country!! You never seen those hugh ones crawling everywhere, after a nice rain shower, in Odessa?? .....you missed out! :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 Oh that story was from when I lived in Midland........ Oh the nightmares :o :o :o :o !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 Oh yeah, they can be pretty intimadating! Especially when they are so big you could almost mistake them for a VW Beetle!! :lol: I've seen them as large as a baby chick. Wait.....wait.....getting that mental picture of you, the dog, the tarantula.............. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ......laughing with you, not at you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 .....okay, okay, so the baby chick was a Bantam....still! That's pretty big for a SPIDER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 That is okay now even I would laugh AT me.... [size=1]Mr. mouthwash tee hee[/size] That thing could have ate my foot(when I was born)!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 [quote name='Jacsmom']That is okay now even I would laugh AT me.... [size=1]Mr. mouthwash tee hee[/size] That thing could have ate my foot(when I was born)!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:[/quote] :oops: [size=2]i was pretty sure everyone had forgotten about the mouthwash incident......[/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 I remember growing up in Lubbock. Those spiders.....too nice of a word, .... those beasts .... would crawl upon our screen door. Geez, scare me to death! I'm not afraid of them, just don't want one to slip down in my sleeping bag, as I wouldn't want a rattle snake to do the same! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 Bugs are just gross. That's all I can say. I love dragon flies, lady bugs, and butterflies....but up close they are still grody. We get pincher bugs around our house. On grampa's farm he had these HUGE yellow and black spiders......HATE those and don't know what they are but they were scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 Sorry K.....I'm SOO sorry.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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