I remember the pix of you & the 2 dogs on the front porch.

O.K. I have to ask. What the heck is a fox tail?

fox tail

The part sticking off to the right.

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I crack myself up.

If you go to Google Images and type in FOXTAIL WEED, you'll see the plant. Look at the closeups. See in the middle of row 4, the big brown closeup? It's those sticking-out spiny things that get breathed up and stuck.

Ha Connie! It would indeed cause a major problem for a dog to have a fox tail up his nose!


One of my Dobes plowed up a couple of feet of dirt and grass with his nose once, going for his ball, and ended up with a nasty, gloppy infection just from the grass and dirt.

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Ha Connie! It would indeed cause a major problem for a dog to have a fox tail up his nose!

But at least with a fox tail the owner would know it ---- as opposed to with a foxtail.

All right. I knew it couldn't be the animal. Never heard of that before. We did have an actual fox run the entire lenght of our schutzhund field a couple weeks ago. Luckily no dogs were out at the time.

Lol well, in my neighborhood it would have been a "cat"tail in lieu of a "fox"tail...

Seriously though, just got back from the vet and he thinks it's an allergy or irritant in the environment. I ran through all of the new plants I have, and some that are old but are going gangbusters. Nothing I could come up with rang any bells

Nothing in the nasal cavity other than drippage. Unfortunately since I left it so long before taking him in it's "sinusitis". I admit I'm not sure what that is exactly. One theory is that whatever was causing the reaction is gone but he's still suffering the after-effects. Poor Jake got an anti-inflammatory shot, and we left with an antibiotic & something to help loosen the gook.

If it doesn't get better in 2 weeks we go back. Crossing my fingers this clears it up.

Thanks for the advice all--

eta: Fun that the vet and his wife now have a GSD puppy. He asked me how long it took before they calmed down and acted like regular dogs, lol. I said "well, mine are 7ish and they just started slowing down last year..." hehehe

He got a shot of Prednisone (steroid)?


How's he doing, Carolyn?

I'm not sure if it was prednisone- I'll go back and look at the record when I check on the boys at lunch. He's doing well- although I haven't seen a big change so far other than not as much sneezing (a good sign). He's being really good about taking so many pills- and is bouncing around when he has the chance. Too much rain here over the weekend; we needed it though.

-thanks Connie