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Cocker Specific Discussion => Health => Topic started by: Michele on July 03, 2007, 05:45:28 PM

Title: Grass Seeds ~ Prevention and Care
Post by: Michele on July 03, 2007, 05:45:28 PM
Some of our newer members have wisely been asking about grass seeds and what they look like. Listed below are a few sites that show you what to look out for and the dangers they can impose. >:(

click here (http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/dogs/foxtails.html)

click here (http://www.aztecanimalclinic.com/foxtails.htm)

click here (http://www.fao.org/AG/Agp/agpc/doc/Gallery/pictures/dactglo/dactglo.htm)

Another good idea is to invest in a snood, then the ears are completely protected.
The one I have is a cotton 'tube' elasticated at both ends - dead simple.  ;)

This site HERE (http://www.handsnpaws.com/product/PCMACCSNOOD) is an American one, but it shows you how to measure up, so you could even have a go at making your own.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/sueflet/hoods.jpg)
As modelled by Suzysu's Georgie & Daisy
copied with permission

Snoods discussion (http://www.cockersonline.co.uk/discuss/index.php?topic=30271.msg408794;topicseen#new)

Snoods from UK site (http://www.k9centre.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=SN-XX-OK)

Snoods from another UK site (made by a Cocker owner) (http://www.shansartcockerspaniels.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81)

Another UK snood site (http://www.dormercrafts.co.uk/designerdogwear.html)

Edited to add a link to a thread started by Jools about her dog Bramble, and the success of using homeopathic silica to remove a seed.

Full story starts here
http://www.cockersonline.co.uk/discuss/index.php?topic=36408.0

information about silica on this page.
http://www.cockersonline.co.uk/discuss/index.php?topic=36408.30

More recent threads:

http://www.cockersonline.co.uk/discuss/index.php?topic=84285.0

http://www.cockersonline.co.uk/discuss/index.php?topic=84602.0