Wednesday, December 16, 2009

For the health and safety of your dung beetles...

Always pick up the poop after worming your dogs, or especially giving them their heartworm pill if you give ivermectin based products. M's looking at me like I'd lost my mind rushing out after the dogs to scoop poop early one morning, but nodded when I explained that we had a very good active dung beetle population out front and that I'd like to keep it that way.

I remember early after we moved here, I walk into the living room one morning to find a dung beetle, after finding herself trapped in the house, decided to just take what she could get, pulling poop off my work boots and assembling a ball and trying to head towards the door with it. I helped her out by placing her back out, with her special find.

You might be in the country if you have dung beetles in the house.

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