my brother & his wife have 4 dogs, 2 border collies & 2 jack russels...
my sis in law does 2 daily walks, a short one with the russels & a long one across the fields with the collies.. being collies, they run like hell, leap thru things, play & have great fun..
so one evening the other week, i was fussing fly, the older collie & noticed a lump on the side of her ribcage.. it wasn't causing discomfort, and they took her to the vets thinking it was a cancerous growth...he had a poke about & decided to do an exploratory op.
what he found astounded them. 3 wild oat seeds
as you can see from the pic, they are barbed & had worked their way in thru the skin, and were in as far as her ribs..
so the poor doggy is under house arrest & has a large open wound on her side, and desperate measures have been taken to stop her getting at it...
my sis in law is brushing the other dogs daily now to make sure it doesn't happen to them
thank you for reading