a small story for all of the png dog lovers

[mowgli]

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
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQdKLDtTLMwhiXqtwVSS3b3_bWpK3bq 5M0cacTEnsgU_90cwflaA
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...
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/mowglinova/Photo0027.jpg

my sis in law is brushing the other dogs daily now to make sure it doesn't happen to them

thank you for reading

[turbojolt]

my brothers (working) dogs use to regularly get them and grass seeds stuck in there pads, not nice

[Angus Closier]

Dogs and other animals for that matter can get things like seeds stuck in the paws/pads etc and they will move up under the skin all around the body.... Causing all sorts of issues....

Please correct me if i am wrong here though....

[mowgli]

no, you are correct about them getting the skin between the pads, but they usually come out on the top of the foot.. we regularly check for them anyway