Dog hair splinters and old dogs...

[tod osier]

I do not know if anyone else has this experience, but it seems to me as a dog gets older their hair gets more likely to splinter in your foot. Skeet is getting on in years and I'm seeing splinters and we haven't had them since Pete was his age. Before you say I'm crazy (in this regard), both Jen and I get them, so it isn't just me.

Anyone have dog hair splinter stories to share?

Foot with a yellow dog hair splinter in center. You can see the red inflammation to the left where it is in my foot.

 

[Bomber]

Tod never had this happen very odd

 

[Dani]

Yup I've had that happen with Drake's hair. For some reason, the dog hair splinters are even more painful than regular splinters. Usually I got them on the bottom of my feet or in my toes. Never in my heel like that.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

Happened to me many times over the lifetimes of 3 labs, but never made the connection to an aging dog. Gunner is only 2 and I can't recall it happening since we got him so maybe you're onto something.

 

[tod osier]

Happened to me many times over the lifetimes of 3 labs, but never made the connection to an aging dog. Gunner is only 2 and I can't recall it happening since we got him so maybe you're onto something.

Good to see, I'm not totally crazy on this!

 

[tod osier]

Yup I've had that happen with Drake's hair. For some reason, the dog hair splinters are even more painful than regular splinters. Usually I got them on the bottom of my feet or in my toes. Never in my heel like that.

They are painful and inflame very quickly. Both Jen and I have had them where they broke off inside and there are inflamed for months.

That is the sole of my foot, photo is a wanky angle.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

Happened to me many times over the lifetimes of 3 labs, but never made the connection to an aging dog. Gunner is only 2 and I can't recall it happening since we got him so maybe you're onto something.

Good to see, I'm not totally crazy on this!

Nah, your right on. Anyway, it's not the dogs fault, rather the fault of whomever fails to vacuum up the nasty hair. [shocked] [whistle]

 

[Eric Patterson]

Happened to me many times over the lifetimes of 3 labs, but never made the connection to an aging dog. Gunner is only 2 and I can't recall it happening since we got him so maybe you're onto something.

Must be like a man's eyebrows. The older we get the coarser they get.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

Happened to me many times over the lifetimes of 3 labs, but never made the connection to an aging dog. Gunner is only 2 and I can't recall it happening since we got him so maybe you're onto something.

Must be like a man's eyebrows. The older we get the coarser they get.

Yes, longer too. Also, the older I get the coarser I get.[]

 

[gcs]

Seems like it's mostly Lab hair that does this, at least the black ones are easier to see,
I don't think we've had that with any other dogs.

 

[Huntindave McCann]

Tod,
Are you sure it's not connected with wearing Crocs? [w00t]

 

[Ken Z]

Tod:

Not a dog hair story but a human hair tale. A few years back while getting a haircut, the stylist was telling me how she's had several painful hair splinters in her fingers/hands, with difficulty in removing them. The topic came up when she put on disposable gloves to trim my beard, and stated that it's more frequent with coarser beard hair. I had never realized this was even a possibility.


Ken Zaborski

 

[gcs]

Just last few days my wife complained of a sharp pain on the bottom of her foot, all you could see was a black dot under the skin...a couple days of drawing salve and finally had to open it up with a needle. Yep , small black hair working its way through her foot...
So I was wrong, it's not just lab hair, this was from a pekingese!

 

[TimJ]

I noticed some from Deuce's hair this past winter. I think it had more to do with dry air, and then skin, than him being 6. Since spring hit I haven't had any.

Tim