How many sticky bobs can you get in a dog ?
Every time we walk out the door the girls come back covered. If I had a penny for every one I have removed this last couple of weeks I would be a rich woman .
We have been coping with the tiny stickies for a few weeks but now the great big ones are ripe and the fields are being harvested round us now and the girls have competitions to see who gets the most on a walk .
Treacle is the out and out winner, she can get stuck up for England...and some:rolleyes:!
Bernese fur is a sticky bob magnet !!
Aileen.

>Sticky Bob Season Is Upon Us!!!

Don't I know it!! :rolleyes: 

Sticky bobs + Newfie = hours of fun :rolleyes:

Thank goodness for slicker brushes :D  Say's she, owner of 6 yankees and an Irish Setter

Dawn R.

Golden Retrievers are quite good at collecting all sorts of burrs in their coats as well - the most devilish to remove so far are those burrs (can't remember the name off-hand) that gave rise to velcro being invented

The small ones are goosegrass and the big ones are the burrs from burdock. :)

>The small ones are goosegrass and the big ones are the burrs from burdock.

We get the whole range...and more besides :rolleyes:  And they're even more difficult to remove from wet fur (she is perpetually wet these days). Poor dog rarely gets a casual stroke these days, more like a full body examination :D

Otherwise known locally as sticky willie !!!

hee hee - we just call then sticky-buds.....our youngest girl gets covered in them when she flings herself down in the long grass to hide from her brother

bless....

Hi Ems Mum, we call it sticky willies in our family too...

And us too ...

Here in Sussex we call iced buns sticky willies

CarolW

Here in Sussex we call iced buns sticky willies

:D

Our GSD keeps getting covered in them.  The slicker is a God send!

We just call them.....sticky damn things :rolleyes:

I call them spikey ball things - they are a terrible pain with 3 long coated spaniels! And the grass seeds as well, it's never ending. And when that's down with you get twig and autumn leaf season, then you get grit and frost ball season, then spring mud season, and then we're back to spikey ball season - what fun longcoated dogs are! :-D

I know the burrs you mean Harley

My golden angus has so many in his fur I love my new slicker brush

Now we are onto straw season...the farmers have harvested and bailed and the fields are full of spiky short straw ends..Pepsi just thinks it's a great big back scratch and she rolls and rolls and rolls in it. She always has a itchy skin..not sore but just loooves a back scratch and now low and behold the fields can do it for her...she is in ecstasy The down side is that the bales are nice to sit on and have our flask of tea in the morning walk and Rosie (Friend co-dog walker, dog sitter, angel, and co-drinking/dancing partner )and I come home looking like we have been rolling in the straw OH is getting a bit suspicious

I've just discovered that a particularly tenacious sticky, at least when it's in Blondie the cat's long coat, is the seed of a lovely wildflower I've been trying to grow in my wildflower garden.  No longer will I throw them out and I wonder where the heck he is getting them as I don't know of any that grow near me.  Last year I bought four of these plants at a native wildflower sale the local Conservation Authority put on.  Four came up this spring but now I have only one due to stupidly not fencing them off adequately from wandering pooch and crazy playing cats.  Most of the stickies just slide off our Lab's short, slightly oily coat as long as I get to them before they become wedged into her undercoat.

Plant them and hope for the best, you may get the flower you have been waiting for !!!!

I didn't even realise Duibh had any in his coat till I groomed him this morning and out they all came with the dead hair.

Both my two always come back with them :rolleyes: