Grass awn
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FCSpringer
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The sooner you find out the better. Ask if they know how to deal with them. If there is a wound and a hole where it went in creating a track. Dye can be used to find it with a ultra sound or xray one or the other. Please save the sample and a vet report if that is what it ends up to be. And get it to me for research please... let me know and good luck.
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Dr. Joe Spoo, he was at last years Pheasant Fest. I think he lives in or around SF. He seemed like a good guy and works with hunting dogs.
henhenROOSTER!!!
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"grass awn"... 
Get to your vet ASAP
Here's a little article on grass awns. Click on "print article" for an easier to read version.
Very deadly, and more common than you would think.
http://www.gundogmag.com/health_nutrition/GD_grassawns_0809/
Here's a little article on grass awns. Click on "print article" for an easier to read version.
Very deadly, and more common than you would think.
http://www.gundogmag.com/health_nutrition/GD_grassawns_0809/
Happened to my do about 15 years ago. I didn't know it, but she kept sneezing constantly. I brought her in, the vet shined a light up her nostril and pulled it out with the needle nozed plier. Any vet in Sioux Falls can handle this. Good luck
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YIKES, now I know why my dog has had several sneezing fits immediately after running thru the type of stuff described in the article - I always assumed he was allergic to a certain type of grass or weed! I have looked every time up his nose, in his eyes, ect. & couldn't find a thing...I will be paying much closer attention next time.
This is the first dog out of four I have ever had this problem with - and it has been repeatedly. I wonder if there is something already lodged deep inside or if he on keeps getting into these type of awns (primarily during my backyard training in the Denver foothills). I may have just found the answer to a long-puzzling question of what keeps making my dog sneeze violently & pawing at his eyes from time to time. This has never happened out in the rooster fields or a duck blind, only in my heavily weeded mountain backyard.
This is the first dog out of four I have ever had this problem with - and it has been repeatedly. I wonder if there is something already lodged deep inside or if he on keeps getting into these type of awns (primarily during my backyard training in the Denver foothills). I may have just found the answer to a long-puzzling question of what keeps making my dog sneeze violently & pawing at his eyes from time to time. This has never happened out in the rooster fields or a duck blind, only in my heavily weeded mountain backyard.
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Might be worth having checked out hhR. I have heard some pretty horrific stories. Some of these awns won't quit until they hit bone.
I mostly run in the grouse woods. We just don't have a lot of pheasants here in MI. So most of the time I don't even think about it. However, one of the CRP fields I hit has a huge patch of fox tail in it. I cringe every time my dog goes in.
I mostly run in the grouse woods. We just don't have a lot of pheasants here in MI. So most of the time I don't even think about it. However, one of the CRP fields I hit has a huge patch of fox tail in it. I cringe every time my dog goes in.