My dog has gotten grass seeds (foxtails, spaniel’s bane) in her ears three times now. (She’s also gotten them embedded in her paws, but this is about ears.) Once I could get it out myself with tweezers, once the vet had to get it out, and once the vet had to get it out but had to knock her out with ketamine first.
See, my dog has a signature move, which is where she dive-bombs the ground while turning sideways, getting as much of whatever she’s diving into onto her ear. Or in her ear. She’s not the brightest. And where I live is basically a biblical plague of grass seeds in a summer with no rain.
Still, I wanted to make an honest attempt at keeping her from getting stuff in her stupid, giant ears (no really, who decided to breed dogs who step on their own ears, that’s fuckin’ stupid) so she can still get the exercise she needs. She has a snood she wears when she eats her wet food for dinner, but she’s not attempting to become one with the ground during dinner, and even then, I have to secure it with a pony tail or it’ll flop straight over her eyes.
Yes, those are her eyelashes, no they don’t/haven’t gotten caught in anything or I would have cut them.
Not letting a spaniel run around outside would be considered cruel, but equally letting her get objects lodged in her head is also bad. So we attempted a mesh snood. It went about as well as I expected.
She, of course, dove at a pile of shit at her first opportunity, thus coating the snood in poop. Now she’s wearing a shit covered snood that we can’t take off or do anything about until we walk all the way home. Then, of course, she jumps into the river because, again, spaniel. She loves being wet. So now we have a shit covered snood steeped in river water.
Here you can see her taking a dip, and then being scared by a stick.
And so, experiment failed. No more off lead time until the fucking grass seeds are gone. Fuck grass seeds. How dare they keep attacking my poor, idiot muppet.