Why we all miss Lurcherbitch!

[jultaylor1972 2]

Ive had Lurcherbitch on the phone today and she has asked me to put this thread on for her as her pc is in for repair and has been for ages Here goes....

1. Can Polecat or Sarah get in touch with bob for her please (She had three dogs off Bob).

2. Her puppy's eyes are weeping a lot/ puffy, its not unwell, is eating fine and generally in good health apart from that, he friends dog (Who lives in close proximity) has the same condition at the minute also? She was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what this might be? Its starting to get the third eye too

3. How do you get rid of ferns in the garden? She has tons of the stuff and normal weed killer isnt working?

4. She has a nice wasps nest in her garden and would like to know what to do to get rid of it? (rather her than me Im terrified of wasps!!)

 

Anyhow, they are the questions she needs help with. Anyone??

[david2363 42]

I have just got back off my holibags (2 weeks in Brittany) and Lurcher Bitch (Julie) looked after my Bedlington whilst I was away.

I have to say that I would have no hesitation in leaving any dog of mine with Julie.

When we turned up to pick him up, the little twat actually looked dissapointed to see us.

I think Lurcher Bitch is a top girl, and this place is poorer for her absence.

 

DAVE

[mad al 146]

Well, I can help with the "fern" thing anyway . I have loads and grow more continually, but there is one thing that really fecks them up , that is my dogs cocking their legs up on them .

They take great delight in this , could be something to do with the amount of ale they share with me mind

 

Al

[mad al 146]

I have just got back off my holibags (2 weeks in Brittany) and Lurcher Bitch (Julie) looked after my Bedlington whilst I was away.

I have to say that I would have no hesitation in leaving any dog of mine with Julie.

When we turned up to pick him up, the little twat actually looked dissapointed to see us.

I think Lurcher Bitch is a top girl, and this place is poorer for her absence.

 

DAVE

 

Nice one Dave ..........Al

[spade 224]

To get rid if the ferns get a spade & start digging. If you don't fancy the job yourself I'm sure there are plenty on here who would like some digging practice before the season starts. Unfortunately most weedkillers these days are useless.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

No way should anyone be trying the " ..... and run like hell. " routine these days. Lately I've seen more and more reports of where, as a Professional has treated the nest, the wasps have inexplicably swarmed out and attacked, most aggresively, anything in sight ~ including a van parked some yards away. And, with the seeming increase of deaths by anaphlactic shock, due to wasp stings? It's fast looking potentially suicidal to meddle.

 

Local professional should charge about the forty quid mark and they'll all be dead as doornails the next day.

[lonedigga 23]

Local professional should charge about the forty quid mark and they'll all be dead as doornails the next day.

Edited June 3, 2008 by lonedigga

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

F*cking Hell, mate! That one left my head reeling! That's 'Un F*cking Believable'! Ye mean to say your employers - some f*cking council - ordered you to go up a ladder and drill a hole deliberately close to a known, active wasps nest?! (I'm just shaking my head in dismay here!) And that, further, they so commanded so that - I'm taking it? - another of their employees, a so called " Pest Control Professional " could get at the f*cking thing with his DR5? That's just unreal!

 

How come you didn't take their sorry arses to the cleaners ~ for breaking about every regulation in the book ~ and that worthless c*** get the sack for overt incompetance?

 

'Mind you; I did say " Local Professional ", didn't I? Not some bored and miserable 'Box Kicker' from the local council!

[polecat 1]

i,ll speak to bob today we judgeing show at castle kennedy as for ferns splitt at root and pore in red diesel if [NO TEXT TALK] want give my mobile ask l/b give us a bell i will p/m you polecat

[bullet 134]

are you sure its a puppy dog, in your question 2 it getting in the third eye too?

Edited August 12, 2007 by bullet

[gaz 284]

Im with ditch on this awell,as i work for my brother on the roofs and if we have to work anywhere near a wasps nest the tools go sraight down and the customer is told that he/she has a nest and it has to be delt with by a pest controler or the local authorities before we carry-on starting or finishing the job

 

Some hint or even ask "since you are up there with a ladder can you not maybe knock it down or give it a spray with something" he tells them politley "no he would rather leave it to someone who knows what there doing" but afterwards he usually turns to me and say's "the fecking cheek o them,im hanging onto their roofs with the skin o my bollocks as it is and they want me tae get stung tae feck aswell.....maybe they should ask the fecking pest controler when he comes out if he dosn't mind stripping and re-slating their fecking roof.......since he's up there with a fecking ladder anyway !!!"

[Guest pip]

PEP pink eye powder best thing its an antibiotic for the eyes and works wonders anywhere else,about 13quid from any good vet,always worked for me

[SNAP SHOT 194]

I can't help with the other problems, but the fern's i can. if you know any farmer's or people in the forestry commission this is the stuff to use,

asulux, but it's now called asulam. can't remember if thats spelt right. but anyway it costs about euro here. by the way if the red diesel works it would be cheaper.

When the fern comes to seed it becomes carsonagenic. So handle with care and wear a mask and gloves.........

you will only kill the fern with this chemical. and the timing is critical, As the tip of the leave goes brown the fern is killing of the leaves to save the roots

so it will grow next season. this normally happens from now till the second week in september..

THIS IS THE ONLY TIME TO KILL IT.

spray with the said chemical. 1 gallon normally does 2 acres soyou won't need much.

if a few return next year do the same again. normally takes 2 sprays to do the job.

 

[Guest WILF]

Tell her to ask the bloke who kills insects for a living........she will know him, she was looking after his dogs last weekend

[macberran 2]

Don't know about the 3rd I or the wasps, I just don't worry bout them but all this poisen stuff won't work long term with bracken. The most effective is bruising. Don't cut it but bend it till the stemkinks,it "bleeds" on itself and dies off. The poisens will surpress it for a year then they come back like billy-o, never mind about the enviro-issues with poisens. We've done this on the farm by dragging an old gate wrapped in fence wire and got back 60% each year till it gave up. The risom(root) can be upto 6m down!. We do this in the spring as the new growth is coming thru, it just takes a bit off time but its safe and it works.