St. Paddy Dogs!

[furtech]

It's too early for St. Patrick's Day, but my dogs are nothing but fast. After a nighttime dog walk I was about to hose 'em off when I noticed something peculiar...



Yep. Green. Somewhere on that foggy night, night, martians replaced my dogs with greenies.



As amused as I was with their condition, I always worry about little things like my dogs suddenly turning green. I am guessing they picked it up when they went into the creek behind a golf course (where the runoff goes). Worried* that it might be chemical residue from fertilizers or herbicides (green is not a "friendly" color when it's part of gardening chemicals), I gave them a shampoo with Pantine Pro-V.

I'm still tempted to go back there before the March/St. Patrick's Day Border Collie Rescue party and green them up again: after their initial hosing-off, they were clean and *bright green*. I just have to see how toxic this stuff is first.




*I was right: certain herbicides are mixed with green dyes to both show location and to add color to the grounds. Herbicides=bad

Comments

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Yeah...but I'm torn: actually -dying- them would violate my, "People who do that sort of thing to their dogs are stoopid," belief, but that would be safer than exposing them to chemicals (also stoopid)-- though the creek-dip would fall under, "Look what my crazy dogs got themselves into!"

Plus, a green dog on St. Patrick's Day is goofy-haha...a green dog in -May- is just...odd. Most of the food-dye links seem to indicate that eventually the dye just wears out...but thanks for the link!