Wednesday, September 23, 2009
OUCH
Last night Booker and I were walking along nicely whenhe started to wipe at his nose frantically.
I thought that he had been stung but then I realized there was something stuck to his face. A piece of cactus. Actually a bud that had been knocked off the main cactus.
I got to him fast and the only thing to do was to pull it off with my hands. Ouch.
Two ouches. A dog ouch and a human ouch.
These little bastards sting. They feel going in and they leave a toxin.
I had to pull a dozen or so small barbs out of his nose. His fur pretty well protected the rest of him.
I don't have fur.
I needed tweezers and found that my teeth worked nicely.
It was all over in about a minute. Two.
It seemed longer.
This is the first time we have had this happen with either dog.
I think that Booker is familiar with cacti. He is careful. Now he will be more careful. So will I.
These were the little tiny spines. A quarter inch. The worse. I think a cholla cactus. We didn't go back to make a positive identification.
