MEAN SEEDS

THE POTENTIAL HEALTH PROBLEMS GRASS AWNS POSE TO OUR HUNTING DOGS.

BOB WEST

IN RECENT YEARS, those of us who hunt and train primarily in the Mid-West are seeing a significant increase in problems related to grass seeds, or “awns,” which until the last few years were thought of as only problems common to the Western states. Yet, here in Iowa, we dealt with a very serious infection in one dog when an awn was identified in a lump outside her rib cage. Then another case where one of our GSPs came very close to losing an eye, only saved when our veterinarian found a Canadian wild rye awn under her eyelid, working its way behind the eyeball. With experiences like this and what I’m hearing of unusual increases in the number of grass awn related problems, we felt it was time to give our…

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Gun Dog (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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