Have read this thread with interest. Glad Jarv is now on the mend.
How on earth do they get into a dog's skin?
I can understand how a "foxtail" seed could travel up a nose or into an ear, but is it just unlucky that Jarv stood on the pointy-end of one that pierced his skin like a needle?
Crikey.....I could get quite paranoid about even taking Lola for a walk......grass seeds, adders, mud....
the one Jarvis had definitely 'travelled' like foxtails do...and having got a foxtail out of Fudges paw on Sunday it's unbelievable how they burrow
about 3 mm sticking out of her skin out of a 1 inch seed, and for the size of the seed it left quite a big hole
It's not going to stop us walking him, and being perfectly honest there are very few grass seed free places around here to walk him....just have to be extra vigilant.
Penny, the swelling is gone and it's almost healed already
(thank goodness...)