Our Experience With Burs

[gaddylovesdogs]

This morning, I was outside on the porch doing my schoolwork while the dogs ran around, sniffed, did whatever they wanted to. Now, we have a pretty big yard. On the right side there is an apple tree and a pine tree, in the middle there is a pine tree, on the left side is the garden, a pine tree, and some sort of other tree.
So the dogs are wandering around doing whatever they please, and Tippy goes and gets burs stuck in her tail. We have them all over the place. She has long fur on her tail, so these burs are at the tip of her gorgeous tail, basically all the way to the skin. So I find myself with a pair of scissors trying to get these two big burs out of her tail. It took about ten minutes for each bur and then I had to brush out her tail to get out all the bits and pieces.
Thankfully she doesn't look too silly with some short hair on her tail...it's not really that noticeable.

[Ash47]

Oh, those dreaded burs. My worst nightmare!!! :eek: Besides fleas of course! LOL

[Sheba]

:eek: Max sometimes get's burs in his fur... (our third cat)

[gaddylovesdogs]

I hate burs!! They're so easy to get off of May and Colby (in fact last night I found one on Colby's tail) because they have short fur, but when Tippy gets them stuck it's a nightmare. I tried brushing them out and after two seconds realized there was no way that was going to work so I chopped them off.

[bubbatd]

I have a cutter blade that takes them out without cutting hair... more like thinning. My goldens when we lived in the woods came in LOADED in the fall !

[Renee750il]

You guys are SOOOO going to hate me. Bimmer pulls his own out, or Shiva and Kharma get the ones he can't reach easily, and burrs don't stick to the grrrrrls coats at all . . .

[gaddylovesdogs]

Lucky!!! I had to sit there and chop at her beautiful tail for twenty minutes straight. She sat there and dealt with it but I got shot one or two mean looks.

[gaddylovesdogs]

Oh and the middle pine tree is gone now, had to be chopped down because it was dead.

[Renee750il]

Lucky!!! I had to sit there and chop at her beautiful tail for twenty minutes straight. She sat there and dealt with it but I got shot one or two mean looks.

Oh, I would hate to have to do that to Bimmer's gorgeous tail! I feel so sorry for the two of you :(

[gaddylovesdogs]

If you part some of the longer top fur you reveal a little spot of fur that's about an inch long rather than three inches long. I'm so gladd she has top fur to cover it, otherwise she'd look so silly. I love her tail, it's so pretty, beautiful long fur.

[bubbatd]

Yes, mine tried to pull theirs out too....but when you have 4 golden tails with 50 burrs each out came the tools !!

[smkie]

when i was still young enuff to be riding my pony i had a horrible burr experience. I had a little fuzzy dog that would run along side or sometimes ride with me. She had run into a patch of cockleburrs..the ones with the long spines that hurt like crazy and began yelping on the side of the road. I got down and tried to pick her up but it was impossible, she was completely covered. This is my one and only break and enter..
there was a nearby farmhouse that i went to, found the door unlocked..no one home, so i went in and found a pair of scissors. I cut off all the burrs and a whole bunch of hair then returned the scissors along with writing a note of apology and explanation. If i hadn't found the scissors i don't know what we would have done for we were a long way from home.
My neice's dog had a bad experience that ended up quite costly a couple months ago. Her cocker spaniel got part of a wicked vine caught on her backside and had some kind of horrible reaction to it. they ended up at the er vet and had a bill of about 300 dollars before it was all overwith. I can deal with sticktights, and the little ball ones but those cockle burrs and that vine of black needles must be seeds from he!!.

[gaddylovesdogs]

Oh ouch smkie!! We've just got the little round ones I think...

[MyDogsLoveMe]

My parents have an older pekingese and he got cat tails embedded in his skin. Poor thing has to be skinned and operated on. I hate em they are a dogs worst nightmare.

[fastpitchchic]

I live in the "sticks" and burs are a way of life, but burs still drive me crazy. My golden gets them on rear all the time. I usually have to sit outside and brush him out with a splitter blade and slicker brush. Otherwise he brings them in the house and gets them all over the place. He's gotten to the point where he waits on the deck for me to brush him out. The only thing that I hate worse than burs are fox tails...now those are nasty little things.

[gaddylovesdogs]

Augh!! Tippy got ANOTHER BURR in her tail last night. So when I wanted to go to sleep (and needed to) I was sitting there chopping it out of her fur lol

[Brattina88]

Ugh! I know how you guys feel. Maddie (my cocker) gets them all tangled in her skirt. I've found the best what is to do them by hand, one at a time. I've had too much experiance with that getting them out of the horses manes and tails. If you hold onto the hair so the dog can't feel you pull and pull up they come out easy, because if you pull down they get caught better.
I'd rather have those huge wonking burrs stuck in her hair to those little annoying green ones... what are those call btw?