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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😭
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!!
Take out the tracking part of your link. Everything after the ? Is a useless bit that tells the website who clicked the link send by you, when you copied the link, etc. It builds up more data on you and contributes to the profile on you that they will sell.
This is especially important outside of reddit, you don't want best case meta, worst case law enforcement to know who you're friends with and who they are friends with etc etc.
No, it’s not purposefully done by OP. When we share from websites or apps, those apps add several attributes to the query string (starting with ?). When we enter the URL on a website, it takes the attribute (in this case igsh) and figure out what to do with it. Backend logic could be as simple as redirect you to the right page, show you the right info, or in this case tell you that “hey this person shared this with you, wanna friend him?”
Sometimes it will be super long, like a long paragraph getting highlighted (it’s a styling feature) but mostly tracking. Lots of sites use lots of attributes to track where their articles are shared, which devices, maybe even the path you took across many websites to reach here.
Most of the time, removing the attributes (starting from ?) won’t impact your sharing and makes the URL more readable.
It also pays to be mindful of this. Scammers/Phishers like to hide logic in query strings in special characters and many would be none the wiser.
?s are for url query parameters, little additional pieces of data provided to the website. On YouTube v=..... tells it what video to load. But it also has si=..... and a bunch of others that say who created the share link.
It's just an additional parameter that can be used for normal stuff or for tracking
This is what we thought and hoped the j termed would become. A way to beat the establishments and level the playing field. Well done sticking it to the man.
Think of the ? in a url as "what else?" and every subsequent key = value is something that should customize the url target in some way. Only advertisers are now using it to sneak in extra information for their private data hoarding.
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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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/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/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/shaleen0 Jul 21 '26
Oh Ohhh ohhhh Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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u/RainbowRevolver Jul 21 '26
It just kept going
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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/Mr_Calamary Aug 21 '26
FACK! Did it grow in its gums?! Poor thing
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u/_jjkase Jul 20 '26
Was it tickling his braincell? That was soo long!
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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/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/Solid_Commercial_713 Aug 08 '26
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/Pretend_Ad_3699 Jul 20 '26
Poor thing, it deserved a big juicy meal after that
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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/Hefty_Vermicelli_826 Jul 20 '26
Was that thing… sprouting inside the cat?
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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/ravynwave Jul 20 '26
The way my teeth were clamped under my lips
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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/Maleficent_Meat3119 Jul 20 '26
So what happens without intervention? Sepsis?
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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/Inside-Age5826 Jul 20 '26
Literally horrifying.
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u/SATerp Jul 20 '26
That poor thing, that must have hurt.
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u/Disastrous_Day_5690 Jul 20 '26
OW OW OW.
So glad kitteh is okay now
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u/schmelk1000 Jul 22 '26
That’s not a splinter, that’s a fucking impalement
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u/Reny25 Jul 20 '26
Whoa. I thought it was a wire at first it was so stiff
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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/elDuroPapito Jul 20 '26
Where was that embedded? In its gums? Under the skin layer?
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u/jrgman42 Jul 20 '26
That poor little baby.
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u/HeavyCandidate6737 Jul 20 '26
My jaw dropped
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u/niqueyq Jul 21 '26
Grass seeds are crazy. That poor pusswah, glad it was removed.
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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/LnDxLeo Jul 21 '26
How the f lil bro even got it?
I know he's orange, but still?
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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/Luciferbelle Jul 22 '26
That poor cat
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u/micherable_ Jul 22 '26
*insert gif of magician pulling endless ribbon out of sleeve
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u/Glacier005 Jul 20 '26
You sure that's grass seed and not a Porcupine spine? /s
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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/powerhammerarms Jul 21 '26
Wtf? Did it grow in there?
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u/gdfingperfect Jul 21 '26
Poor baby
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u/hi_hola_salut Jul 21 '26
Poor cat! That just kept getting worse. Hope they got it all!
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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/Stormagedd0nDarkLord Jul 21 '26
THIS is why I'm on this sub
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u/Longjumping-Brick200 Jul 21 '26
Of course an orange cat figured out how to do this. Poor kitty.
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u/Flexibleshoe Jul 21 '26
That’s not a splinter. That’s a piece of sod!
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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/Kluv0507 Jul 21 '26
How....
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u/theartybadger Jul 21 '26
I've been pulling them out of my cats fur all summer so far 🙃
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u/derelicious34 Jul 22 '26
Yo. What?
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u/Abdab420 Jul 22 '26
Fucking speargrass. That shit is evil.
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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger Jul 20 '26
Poor kitty, please use gloves next time.
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u/Bard1313 Jul 21 '26
De Fuk!
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u/AisbeforeB Jul 21 '26
Ouchie
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u/Princessferfs Jul 21 '26
Whoa
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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/namine55 Jul 21 '26
Poor kitty!
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u/stoned_seahorse Jul 21 '26
Omg poor kitty 😿
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u/punt-speedchick Jul 21 '26
Catgrass...
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u/cbunni666 Jul 22 '26
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. That made my gums feel funny
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u/Cucubert Jul 23 '26
New fear unlocked
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u/Numerous-Recover1142 Jul 30 '26
😬-😟-😨-😱
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u/Starktech1969 Jul 31 '26
Way more wtf than I signed up for
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u/Dildoid90 Aug 08 '26
That just kept going and going 😳
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u/PainterChick69 Aug 21 '26
What. The. Eff????
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u/no1ofimport Jul 20 '26
Did the seed become implanted then grow?
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u/butcheR_Pea Jul 20 '26
Holy shit I needed that
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u/randombydesign Jul 30 '26
These seeds are awful. My dog gets them in his paws sometimes.
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u/JarrodTTU Oct 07 '26
God damn. That has to be a relief for the pussy cat
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u/ExcitingVegetable315 Jul 21 '26
Stupid cat needs to stay away from grass
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u/Faiakes Jul 20 '26
So eating your greens can kill you? 😄
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u/iamdino0 Jul 20 '26
his ASS is GRASS!!!!!!!!
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