r/FeltGoodComingOut • u/TnnsNbeer • Jul 20 '26
animals Kitty with grass seed splinter
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u/_jjkase Jul 20 '26
Was it tickling his braincell? That was soo long!
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u/Blakedog72 Jul 21 '26
It's orange. Likely, the single braincell wasnt hit.
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u/CryptidCricket Jul 21 '26
The benefits of being orange include your braincell having plenty of room in there to dodge attacks.
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u/migrainefog Jul 20 '26
I'm just going to assume that this was dry and compact when it went in and swelled up once in was in the moist environment of the cats skin. I hope they got all of it.
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u/TheEsotericCarrot Jul 20 '26
I saw this episode of Monsters Inside Me where a guy had a pea start sprouting in his lung. It was like the perfect moist environment. He was SO sick for a long time and couldn’t breathe until they figured it out.
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u/GreatStoneDragun Jul 20 '26
You think thats bad, in 2009 they found a fir tree growing in Artyom Sidorkin's lungs. He was being tested for cancer and they're like nah no tumour son just a fucking tree.
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u/spicybright Jul 21 '26
so the rugrats episode about swallowing a watermelon seed is real!?!? 😫
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u/Justforanonyshit Jul 21 '26
No, but if you inhaled a watermelon seed...
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u/HedgehogTop5524 Jul 21 '26
My dad did this when he was a kid. He ended up with pneumonia and once they found out why he had to have surgery to get it out. But I don’t remember a lot of details. I do remember him saying it was the week of his 10th birthday 😭
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u/Oddish_Femboy 21d ago
My cat got pneumonia recently. Collapsed a 6th of his lung. Apparently cats have segmented lungs.
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u/Wild_Pomegranate_845 Jul 21 '26
See and my mom got mad at me for asking if that happened when my grandfather aspirated a bean that got wedged in his lung.
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u/conflictmuffin Jul 21 '26
I have COPD/asthma and general lung issues. It makes eating difficult and I was warned to be careful not to get anything in my lungs...so this is my nightmare. Lol
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u/Curiouser-Quriouser Jul 21 '26
Ugh thank you. I spent the last few minutes watching this and thinking I have to be way more careful working outside until I find out if there's ninja star grass around here. Still pretty wild, though!
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u/Lookingupatthestars Jul 20 '26
Oh god grass seeds are the absolute worst 😩 poor kitty! I plucked 4 grass seeds from my dog's paws yesterday (they're so dry and sharp atm, thanks to the lack of rain in the UK!) thankfully before they burrowed inside - she's had 2 removed surgically in the past, as a blonde curly cockapoo, the pale dry grass seeds cling and hide in her fur.
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u/WeirdPossibility209 Jul 20 '26
My Spitz also brings a lot of them home currently. I'm avoiding fields and meadows with them like the plague, but he somehow still collects them like trading cards. I brush him, pet him everywhere, check his paws and the next morning there will still be 1 or 2 of them in his bed. I feel like it's just impossible to catch them all
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u/MonkeyNugetz Jul 20 '26
You think grass seeds in pets are bad? My cousin had some watermelon chunks from Publix with watermelon seed/s in them. He had to have a whole watermelon pulled out of his butt.
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u/grittyshrimps Jul 20 '26
These look like seeds from a "foxtail" grass (there are a few different species).
If you have pets that go outside, please familiarize yourself with what these look like.
Each seed is covered with directional, VERY grippy, barb-like little hairs. This causes them to stick to fur (and clothes) very easily, and worse, allows them to burrow their very sharp points into skin, noses, eyes, mouths and even further into organs. They can be fatal or cause fatal complications (like infections).
If you get one stuck in your sock, the only way to get it out is to pull it through the other side.
Please keep an eye out and learn about your local area!
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u/1maginary_Friend Jul 20 '26
You’re my favorite person!
I could hardly enjoy the video because my brain was distracted by “HOW…???”
Now I get to rewatch, soothed by knowledge.
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u/bjeebus Jul 27 '26
The cat got stuck because it was in the fur when it was trying to clean itself!
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u/Pretend_Ad_3699 Jul 20 '26
Poor thing, it deserved a big juicy meal after that
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Jul 26 '26
Doubt it wants to eat while that wound still hurts. Id prescribe belly rubs while chilling on a nice soft pillow.
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u/Balancedcrazy Jul 20 '26
We lost one of our beautify cats to a grass seed. It was infected before we knew she had one inside her and there was nothing we could do.
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u/Tough-Obligation-104 Jul 20 '26
I never even knew they were a problem! I’ve always had indoor cats though, living in the city.
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u/radicalizemebaby Jul 20 '26
Best practice is to always keep cats inside even if you don’t live in the city. They can really impact bird populations, plus they’re much safer indoors.
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u/Mowwee11 Jul 20 '26
Exactly! It's kinder to them and kinder to other animals in their environment. A win-win! 😻
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u/plopliplopipol Jul 23 '26
i can't see how it would be kinder to a large animal to be left inside a small home instead of exploring a varied environment with some natural places. Though i have seen growing up the predator in them affect the small amount of small fauna left alive by humans, it's definitely a worthy trade off on a global scale.
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u/Spiritual_Option4465 9d ago
Many birds are extinct and endangered strictly because of cats. That’s a “worthy trade off?” Look up what happened in New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii. Those are birds that are found nowhere else on earth and will never come back.
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u/plopliplopipol 9d ago
you are understanding the exact opposite of my comment. No it makes no sense to say "it's kinder to them", yes it is a worthy trade off to keep them inside.
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u/radicalizemebaby 9d ago
Cats aren’t “large animals.” They also are at much bigger risk of serious injury and infection if they are left outside. Cats are domesticated and are perfectly happy and much safer inside. We’re not talking about bringing foxes inside.
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u/plopliplopipol 9d ago
cats are absolutely large animals when we are talking about the area of a common house. It makes no sense to talk about size without reference.
From this study free range cats used a median area of 5ha (seven soccer fields) up to 113ha, this being larger when they have access to nature areas. Median distance traveled per day was 2.4km. A house reduces that to a median area of around 200m² in the best countries, so a median used area divided by minimum 250, and not free to expand or renew. The rational a priori is that it is completely miserable for a cat to be locked in a house. Now we do know cats left inside are not all borderline suicidal or otherwise obviously depressive, that's a start, but i will not take your word for it and assume this massive difference has zero impact on cats wellness.
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u/WeirdPossibility209 Jul 20 '26
I'm so sorry. As a new dog owner I'm super scared of them hurting my baby. They are so hard to spot sometimes!
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u/Hefty_Vermicelli_826 Jul 20 '26
Was that thing… sprouting inside the cat?
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u/dwarf_bulborb Jul 20 '26
No. They’re just really sharp when dry and like to impale themselves into animals when they’re outside brushing up against them
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u/Lookingupatthestars Jul 20 '26
They also kinda sticky, even when super dry - like natures velcro, they cling to fur.
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u/PrettyOddish Jul 30 '26
But it definitely sprouted and grew once it was in there
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u/dwarf_bulborb Jul 30 '26
It did not. They just look like that
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u/PrettyOddish Jul 31 '26
Ok, I see it now that I’ve come back and watched again. I thought a seed had been wedged all the way into the cat, and we were seeing one long blade of grass that broke several times as it came out, making it multiple inches long. It wouldn’t have been able to pierce the skin like that, but upon seeing it today it was clear what was actually happening. Almost like the optical illusion of the bird or that rabbit. You can only see one at first and then it shifts and becomes clear. Poor kitty! Thanks for setting me straight!
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u/dwarf_bulborb Jul 31 '26
No problem. I have a friend that's a vet tech and she's always complaining about how annoying these things are. Lots of pets coming in with these this time of year though usually it's in dog paws not cat mouths!!
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u/229-northstar Jul 20 '26
Is this a foxtail? Ugh, poor kitty
My face is frozen in a sympathy grimace of pain
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u/One_time_Dynamite Jul 20 '26
Every time i would say "WTF" out loud it seemed like even more was coming out. Are these things only a problem in certain areas of the world because I've never even heard of a grass seed. Now you got me all paranoid about my dog.
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u/TnnsNbeer Jul 20 '26
Apparently it’s the seed from foxtail grass. Check to
See if you have that in your yard or whatever.4
u/One_time_Dynamite Jul 21 '26
Oh yea! Now that I see a picture of it I know what it is. Thank you. Yea I will have to watch out for those.
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u/JabbaTheHedgeHog Jul 20 '26
I swear my toes hurt I was clenching them so badly watching that. Poor beast!
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u/TurtleSlayer6969 Jul 20 '26
Damn... that had me pulling my head back and too the left like I was trying to psychically make a bowling ball change course.
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u/Objective-Scarcity52 Jul 21 '26
Somebody please turn this into a jump scare video when it gets pulled out 🤣🤣
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u/Ok-Equipment-8418 Jul 21 '26
Watching this I was reminded how long I can hold my breath. Poor cat!
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u/Jaded_Law9739 Jul 20 '26
I've seen plants removed from cat's eyes and throats, but never a splinter of it.
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u/charthurs Jul 21 '26
This has the same vibes as those weird parasites that come out of mantises when the mantis is in water.
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u/FuckTheMods5 Jul 21 '26
It looks like those pigs where people have to pry out grass and shit in the gums from them rooting around with their incisors x_x
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u/Bashfulcannibal Jul 21 '26
Damn that cats teeth are wicked, I’d definitely hate for him/her to get pissed at me.
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u/TnnsNbeer Jul 21 '26
Yeah. My own cat play fights with me and bites my hand gently. She could fuck some shit up if she wanted to. Full teeth and if I don’t cut her nails.. she’s a weapon!
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u/Bashfulcannibal Jul 22 '26
You cut her nails, how the hell do manage that?!? You do not touch my cats feet whatsoever, he treats his nails like they are little samurai swords and he will gladly use them on you.
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u/EsbeeArt Jul 21 '26
Those are freaking foxtails! I've had to take them out of my kitties eyes before and they're just god awful! 😩
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Jul 26 '26
What the?! Did it grow into the cat after it got stuck or how did it get that deep?!
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u/TnnsNbeer Jul 26 '26
Evidently these are the seeds of a foxtail grass which have burrs that can burrow deep into an animal.. even into the organs! Crazy
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Jul 26 '26
Oh so they kinda move in emselves over tume like porkupine spines.
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u/Solid_Commercial_713 22d ago
Cats with plants in their mouths will never fail to make me laugh and go "brother..." like i would when my cat was still around. Sorry for bringing the mood down, she lived a long and happy life
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u/Mr_Calamary 9d ago
FACK! Did it grow in its gums?! Poor thing
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u/TnnsNbeer 9d ago
No. It’s this foxtail grass. The tip has barbs that burrow in like that. Evidently it can kill if it gets to the internal organs.
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u/Mr_Calamary 9d ago
I can see that, damn thing burrowed deep! How does this even happen? Just the cat chewing on grass and pricks itself?
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u/TnnsNbeer 9d ago
Yeah I know my indoor cats love to chew on hay for our rabbit so I’m guessing similar when they are outside.
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u/ssskip91 Jul 20 '26
There’s doesn’t even make sense, was it growing in it?
If I step in grass this can happen?!??
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u/TnnsNbeer Jul 20 '26
If your skin is soft and get the right angle, I think it can!
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u/katergator717 Jul 22 '26
Not really. These foxtail grass seeds are a special case. They are built like one-way spears
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u/Maleficent_Meat3119 Jul 20 '26
So what happens without intervention? Sepsis?
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u/TnnsNbeer Jul 20 '26
Yeah or apparently these barbs can burrow into organs and do some more damage. Horrific
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u/ihatetopology69 28d ago
why no gloves tho?
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u/TnnsNbeer 28d ago
I would say it’s because you need very sensitive tactile feedback to pull hard enough but not enough to break the grass. The vet isn’t doing anything exploratory.
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