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Cactus Alert

I really can’t figure out my person sometimes. My trails are full of pricklers. You’re supposed to stay away from them, but lately my person has been stopping and taking pictures of them.

Come on, person. Let’s get on with our walk. What do you want pictures of those darn pricklers for anyway? They’re here all the time. It’s not like they’re something special or anything.

I’m really losing my patience, person. Can’t you at least just click and walk?

Do you believe it? She’s stooping down to get closer to those pricklers.

What was that you said, person? I thought it sounded like “Ouch!”

You what? You got pricked? See, I told you that would happen. Will you listen to me now?

Oh no, now what are you doing? There aren’t even any cacti here. Well at least you won’t get stuck.

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Posted by Bongo on August 23, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cactus, Pets, Photography, prickly pear, Trail

Hey, what is this? This used to be my trail. Yesterday it was my trail. It’s always been my trail. It still smells like my trail. But now it’s got branches in the way, and freshly planted prickly pear cactus, and some square thing sticking out of the ground.

I guess I’ll have to go on my other trail. It’s a good trail too, but I like having options.

Oh, now I know why the first trail is blocked.

Somebody wanted me to go on the other trail because the dogs are out in the yard near the trail. And they like to bark at me. I think I’ll ignore them. That makes them bark even more.

But I’m still confused. How am I going to go on a trail when there’s cactus growing in the middle of it? It wasn’t there yesterday. Maybe it will be gone again tomorrow. My person says there’s been a trail there forever and it even has trail signs on it.

I guess someone needed to plant some cactus and wasn’t sure where to put it.

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Posted by Bongo on July 28, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, prickly pear, Trail

Plump Prickly Pears

17 Jul

We didn’t have rain here for weeks and weeks. The prickly pear cacti were getting skinny. So skinny that you could hardly see them if you looked at them from the edge. They had to come at you flat on, but don’t try to shake their hand. You’ll be sorry.

The last few days we have had lots and lots of rain. And now we have plump prickly pears. Even the fruits that were looking like scrawny little things have plumped out. The prickly pears are so plump now that even when they try to hide they can’t.

Where did this hedgehog cactus come from? I think I remember it from when it was blooming, but it must have walked away and just now come back. Or maybe it was a skinny little thing like those prickly pears. My my, look how plump you’ve gotten little cactus. You’re lucky you have pricklers or I might want to eat you.

I think all the cacti on my trails have become happy campers. I bet they think they found their cloud with the silver lining.

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Posted by Bongo on July 17, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cactus, hedgehog cactus, prickly pear, Rain

No More Flowers

25 May

Most of the flowers on my trails are starting to fade and I’m kind of happy about it. I’m getting tired of my person stopping every few feet to take flower pictures. Aren’t we supposed to be walking when we go out on my trails? I mean, it is called a walk, isn’t it?

My person makes me stay around her when she’s taking pictures and it’s really boring. I start looking for some good weeds to munch on and she gets mad at me for it and yanks me away from them. Or I try to run off down the trail – and then, boing! I hit the end of my leash. And my person yanks me back when I do that too.

So it’s good that we’re running out of flowers for my person to take pictures of. Well, I thought we were anyway. We were walking along the trail and I saw something yellow that wasn’t there before. And then another – and another.

Oh, no! It’s the prickly pears. They’re starting to bloom. And the prickly pears are everywhere on my trails. And they all have lots of flowers. If my person tries to take pictures of all those flowers I’ll never get my walk. We’ll be stopping and going forever. Click, click, click.

It’s bad enough that I have to hang around and wait for my person while she’s taking pictures. But what if she doesn’t finish before it’s time for dinner?

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Posted by Bongo on May 25, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, prickly pear, Trail

Prickly Pear Attack

27 Dec

Along my trails live lots of prickly pear cactus. Mostly I try to stay away from those things because they are full of pricklers and I don’t want to get pricked by them. Somebody around here doesn’t seem to be worried about that though, because there are big bites out of some of those cacti.

I wonder if they taste any good. Someone thinks they do because they’re willing to brave the pricklers and all in order to eat them. I’d sure like to try them – they must be very good – but I’m going to see if my person will remove the pricklers first.

My person says it’s the javelina that eat those things. Those creatures must be braver than I thought, or dumber. I wonder if they run around with pricklers in their mouths. Ouch!

I think there’s a new kind of javelina stalking my trails now. When the normal javelinas bite into a prickly pear the bite mark is curved and bumpy. But these new bites are straight across and smooth. And this new javelina is not very good at finishing everything on its plate. It leaves most of its food on the ground.

I think this new javelina deserves a good spanking.

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Posted by Bongo on December 27, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cactus, javelina, Pets, prickly pear

Pricklers

02 Dec

There are some plants that grow wild around here called prickly pears. The pear part sounds pretty good. I wouldn’t mind eating a few pears. But then there’s that other part. The part that’s called prickly. It’s not by accident that those pears are called prickly. They are full of pricklers. Two kinds of pricklers. Even the pears have pricklers.

There are great big white pricklers. They look pretty nasty. But those aren’t the ones you have to worry about the most. If one of those sticks in you it’s pretty easy to pull out. It’s those little orange pricklers that are the nastiest. They come in clumps and if you brush up against them you don’t get just a prickler or two. You get the whole clump, or at least a good part of it. Those little pricklers don’t come out. You’ve got to use something called tweezers to get at them. And they sting.

I almost got it the other day. I leaned against one of those darn prickly pears without realizing it. My person warned me and then pulled a couple of those pricklers out of my hair. Boy was she lucky I didn’t get any more. She would have had to run home to get the tweezers.