Thread: Plants - the nasty kinds

I'm still stinging/sore on my shin, grrr

Originally Posted by Dougie

I'm still stinging/sore on my shin, grrr

Ha ha. It stings like a bitch when you have a hot shower too. Sort of re powers it up again. A good Onga whack will tingle for a day or two.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Ha ha. It stings like a bitch when you have a hot shower too. Sort of re powers it up again. A good Onga whack will tingle for a day or two.

Okay, yeah thanks. I showered before work and tried to just pat it dry but yep, super powered that fucker!

Google stinging nettle remedeys, may have something useful.

Dougie, the native stinging nettle, ongaonga, is a deciduous plant...it is when it drops its leaves that it becomes potentially more dangerous to dogs as the sting will still be potent!! For humans who have gotten badly stung with it, lots and lots of black coffee is a good way to start!!!



Addend: the sting of the introduced nettle Urtica dioica can be relieved by rubbing dock leaves over the stung parts...it really does work!!

Bloody stuff in the ureweras was nasty in winter & it grew over 6' high .Start following deer trails they generally go right threw a big patch of it .
Think we used Meths on the stings ,been a long time since got hit by the stuff . I used to go numb for 3 or 4 days ,backs of hands use to wear it most.

Originally Posted by Chris

Bloody stuff in the ureweras was nasty in winter & it grew over 6' high .Start following deer trails they generally go right threw a big patch of it .
Think we used Meths on the stings ,been a long time since got hit by the stuff . I used to go numb for 3 or 4 days ,backs of hands use to wear it most.

In the army my left hand got so fat, leathery, swoolen just from being the leading hand on my rifle when bush bashing eh.

Dougie there is a fair bit do dock about so go looking

It attracts dead dear...they always seem to end up in a patch of it. Sometimes I tingle for several days if I have been caught by it.

An old remedy is to rub the tingling area with a dock leaf.

There's a lot of it in the Nthn Wairarapa and I've seen a dog become very ill through being stung by it on one of the Ripia River private blocks.

Dougie, you will get to know the sorts of habitat where it prefers to grow and learn to spot it easily by second nature. Getting stung by it speeds up the learning process.

could add these bushes to the list.

Originally Posted by Toby

could add these bushes to the list.

It's a list of the top most common cases of poisonings that are admitted to our hospital.

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.

Originally Posted by Barefoot

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 hahaha that's saying something for you....

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