A DOG expert has issued an urgent warning over a super "common" and "dangerous" dog plant that can be found on field walks.
The professional dog trainer explained that while letting your dog off leash to run an open field is extremely fun and a great way to get energy out, there's a specific plant that all dog owners should be careful with.
In a clip shared to TikTok, the woman, who regularly shares her expert advice under the acronym @toppawk9s, begins: "These are called fox tails, and they can be detrimental to your dog.
"They have two different looks, depending on the season.
"And these are what you need to be careful of.
"These little things right here, they have barbs on them, and they get embedded everywhere into your dog."
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And it's something the dog pro knows only too well.
Sharing a snap of her beloved pooch, she continued: "My girl right here got them embedded inside her eardrums, and we had to spend £620 at the ER vet to get them out.
"They can get in their teeth and their gums and get in their eyes.
"They can get all over their fur and inbetween their toes and their paw pads."
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She then went on to give another example.
"Here's a puppy that walked into a patch of these to go potty, and it came out with these embedded everywhere," she warns.
"This puppy was in that patch of fox cell for less than one minute, and we spent 45 minutes getting everything out of his fur.
"They're painful, and if they go unnoticed, they can cause a lot of health problems for your dog."
The post has since gone viral, garnering a whopping 655k views and several comments from dog owners across the globe.
"Twice our girl had them in the back of her mouth /throat," recalled one.
A second wrote: "Mine had it in her toes."
A third commented: "Thank you became I am getting a puppy in 8 days and me and my brother played baseball in a park and I end up with those on my sock and if I didn’t see."
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Meanwhile, a fourth noted: "My grandmas dog Boris got one on his paw pads and even when they got out his paw was swollen."
Another added: "I remember my dog had gotten one in her nose and it was horrifying to see her sneezing up blood."
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