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OT- flypaper glue in dog's fur, ideas?

witch.hazel's picture

Hello All,

I had a lot of flies after my escape cat tore a hole in the window screen for the second time. This morning my big baby of a dog was standing in the hallway not moving. Reason why, he had a strip of the fly paper stuck to the side of his body! It's not horrible, there are three little sticky spots left in his fur after a shower using Dawn on just the sticky parts. Now dust or dirt is sticking to the residue on his fur in those areas...any ideas on how to completely remove this glue? Oh, and this all happened at 5 am, too.

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notsurehowtodeal's picture

is magical stuff. It can remove almost anything that is sticky. It would then need to be washed out as it leaves a bit of a residue.  Can you just cut off all of the fur that is still sticky?

Fly strip glue is miserable to deal with - good luck!

bananaseedo's picture

Yep, goo gone.  I'll top your story- it's 5 am, our dogs sleep on the bed with us, and sometimes in their kennels-other .  The pup who is 5 months now only recently started sleepign on the bed every few days.

She is wicked smart but still will poop anywhere in middle of the yard-the adult dog will go to the back of property in a non play around area.  We're trying to train her to go back there.  So, I scoop it every day to the back-except when I forget....dogs go out in middle of the night (we have a doggy door)- jump back on bed...seconds later I realize our adult dog smells like shit...YEP, he stepped in his sisters poop and dragged it into our bed from his paws.  Was horrific waking up that late, cleaning his paws and having to re-do the bed I tell ya lol

Major Blunder's picture

Believe or not WD40 will work and it is mostly made of fish oil so it is much safer to the dog's skin.

disrestep's picture

The safest thing to do without using any chemicals or anything your dog could ingest while grooming would be to clip the fur off where the sticky stuff is or if you have a pet hair clipper use that - the pet clipper/shears like the groomers use. 

I've had to clip sticky pine tree tar off a pet and found just cutting the fur off in the affected area was the easiest and safest way to remove it. Their hair grows back in no time.

good luck 

witch.hazel's picture

Looks like that's what we'll do (that being the free option)! I love the smell of wd40, also thought of goo gone...didn't know it wasn't toxic.