St. Paddy Dogs!
Feb. 22nd, 2010 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechIt'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
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
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Date: 2010-02-23 01:24 pm (UTC)Apache's expression in the last pic is SO FAMILIAR, aagh. Dubious border collie is dubious. Luck looks at me that way all the friggin' time.