It's a list of the top most common cases of poisonings that are admitted to our hospital.
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Because for the average vet rat poison, chocolate, etc ARE the most common poisons.
The majority of dog owners won't see anything worse than the blackberry bushes in the local park.
There's about 80 houses in my street, there are 13 dogs that I know are in the street, I'm sure there's more.
My 2 will be the only ones that regularly leave the burbs, some probably don't leave the section.
It's interesting eh. My next door neighbour has a pointer and a boxer, they NEVER leave the section. The pointer is an 'escape artist' so he is always chained up, left to bordom bark for eight hours a day as his exercise.
Wellington seems to be a big lover of poodle crosses...ugh haha. Yesterday at work we had a Viszla entire male come in and I always immediately ask the owners if they hunt!
It would be cool to work at a rural vet....do you take your hunting dogs to the 'normal' suburban vet? I just changed vets...and I don't go to the one I work at :D hahaha that's saying something for you....
He sounds like a beaut Dougie .. you probably already know!! but a word of caution heat will kill a dog faster than you would ever believe.. dumb arse's locking their mate in a car with windows just down a crack etc is a death sentnce but even running a dog in the heat drop em .. we take our mob down to a secluded part of the river and swim the buggers for an hour in summer.
As far as hunting goes were off the hill by 9am it just to dangeous to the hounds.
What flavour pooch do you have, stingray? I've put in an order to Santa for Jet..a kiddy pool/giant shell. Not much water near us. He'd swim in a teacup if he could fit.
Just a bista at present, Keela is a buggered if I know ( got her as a failed pig dog ), looks like a keepie / collie / mutt down the road cross... has a wicked nose could find a fart in a gale!!
She's around about three I was told,bloody well trained & stock proof as and a awsume mate.. she has a few scars so I'm picking she got a couple of hidings from a pig or two and decided that huntings not for her.
She'l run all day & swim all afternoon,clean tidy and a bloody great pot licker. so yeah she suits me.
No hunting dogs at present.. work / mortage etc.
the hounds I mentioned before are my mates pack bully x's (not pitbull), boof head ,honest, loyal dogs
Couple of the guys have mentioned it - but dock really is the best solution to nettle stings - crush the leaves first in your hand - its the sap/juices fom the dock you want into your skin - it neutralizes it (or at least minimises it).
Anti-histamine (hay-fever) type medication might help too - the irritation is actually your own body reacting to the toxins in the plant. You should definitely consider if swelling present. Yup - they're (anti-histamines) a good little thing to carry in your bumbag - will kick in within 10 minutes of taking. Obviously go for the non-drowsy type! (Loratadine or cetrizine the usual non-drowsy ones)
I'm on anti-histamines year-round now due to another medical condition - but the plus has been that bites and stings don't bother me half as much these days either.
great advive SiB, Cheers
Could find a fart in a gale - awesome, I love it. Wish my dog could do that!!!! :D
We got heaps of onga onga in the Ruahines also down at the river.
One part we used too walk thru the bush is blocked by that shit now:(
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Whack on a 15 litre backpack spray unit of roundup and knock the shit out of it Dundee
Can you get a scrub bar or weed eater in there then spray the chopped up shit?
whats about petrol and matchs?
Nahh the whole place would go up
Big clearing :D
the other remedy we have used in the past for Ongaonga stings is put a set of gloves on, grab the stem below the leaves and slice the stem to show the white sap wood and rub that on the sting, its worked for us in the past ( your results may vary, dont resting your self :ORLY:
This crap is spreading at a rate 50cm a day
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And has smothered a large totara and other native trees
Machete at ground level Dundee!
Can't be that many vines out of the ground ?
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There will be lots of little tendrils that will go into the ground, once they take grip. They quickly become roots and then if you pull the rest out they will still resprout.
Yea but it would kill the big ones killing that tree.
Not a long term fix obviously
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Ongaonga got me on Saturday Dundee.
Steady on chaps Onga Onga is the local pub:cool:
There was the old German fella that used to live on the corner at Te Whaiti. He was a tough old hard case, always trolling up and down the roads with his rifle, I used to pig hunt with one of his Son's. I built a couple of campsites (mid eighties) in the area for a tourist venture, they had hot showers and flushing toilets supplied by Ram pumps fed by small dams. One was just past Skips, or Rodgers, which ever is furthest in from the Okahu Rd. Not that far from the Mangahika saddle and the other was at the Bull Pen down towards Central Te Hoe hut. Anyone know if they are still there??
Yup agreed Onga Onga is shit
They used to take me 8 days to build with a gang of 4 track cutters, they also had Hot water and a septic tank and field drain. The last nite was always hot shower nite, instead of the creek ,luxury. This was in winter, bloody cold tent camps.