Grass awns are barbed wire for dogs. How to spare them this nightmare. Story by DPA International • 14m. P arks, fields, forests - just about anywhere a dog wants to go, you'll find them lurking.

Buena Vista veterinarian Beth Ritchie of Friends Mobile Veterinary Service said that she sees “a number of problems caused by ...

In extreme cases, some grass awns have entered through the skin, ear or nose and migrated internally in the body. Bourgeois said some veterinarians have found them in lung lobes.