Pads , and nettles

[kateincornwall]

Nelly was in the jungle this morning , the wild and purposely overgrown area at the bottom of our garden . She came in for her breakfast and began to shake , and mess with her feet , I know that there are brambles and nettles down there , so the likelihood is that she had nettled her pads , she is now fine .
The strange thing is that nettles never used to bother Sam , he used to run for his dummy through a field with nettles , and never seemed to react at all , whereas Nelly got stung once and refused to walk anywhere near them .
Do they affect other dogs I wonder , and also wonder why Sam never reacted , maybe Labs have extra strong tough pads ?

 

[HAH]

Poor Nelly and her nettled feet. I wondered exactly this this morning on our walk - we went into a fairly scrubby field with lots of dense patches of young nettles and thistles, and Kipper clearly avoided the areas of nettles as well as the thistle patches. I think some are more sensitive to nettle stings?

 

[snowbunny]

I think some of it is age, too. Luna got quite upset with nettles last year, but she's not bothered now. Whether that's because she's more robust now, or whether her pads are less sensitive I don't know.
I wonder if smaller dogs have less tough pads as there's not as much weight on them?

 

[Joy]

Molly is incredibly prissy about not walking on anything prickly. If I throw a toy and it lands where there are thistles, nettles or brambles then I get the look and end up fetching it myself. I once owned an insane Springer who would leap into any cover without a second's thought.

 

[Stacia]

Rourke used to react to nettles when younger and also now when the nettles are young, otherwise he will retrieve out of them, hunt through them and show no signs of ill effect at all.

Poor, wee Nelly, nettles sting me as well, horrid things.