Thread: Grass Seed Infections

A couple of years ago my ESS had a grass seed lodged in her 'armpit'. We picked up on it almost too late and we nearly lost her. In the afternoon she has been fine but at tea time she was off colour, laying down outside instead of pestering for food, not 'watching the world go by' that sort of thing... by evening she was really going downhill fast and was not able to hold her head up, shivering and so on. An emergency phone call to the vet in Warkworth got it diagnosed over the phone very quickly, she was in shock, had white gums and was basically going down fast. The vet asked a few questions about if she had been shot, poisoned or hit by a car and then said "grass seeds, I'll meet you at the surgery in 30 mins". It took a cocktail of jabs to hit the infection, her shock etc and then a minor operation the next day to remove the seeds - all in about $150.
We now make sure that her hair is cut short between her toes and that we check for seeds after she has been for a run where there is grass. My experience would suggest that you may not have weeks to think about what may or may not be happening.