Can Really Get Under Your Dogs' Skin. A nice young couple brought Alfred to the hospital because his owners, the older gentleman next door and his youthful wife, were away on vacation. Alfred had something wrong with his eye. They thought he may have gotten a cheat grass awn in it.
Cheat grass is common along the roads and in vacant lots.
Sometimes cats who prowl through the weeds get them stuck in their eyes. The eye is usually very sore, weeps, turns red, and the cat holds it closed. But Alfred sat there looking at me with both eyes wide open. Yes he was, but it was just running, and we could tell it was bothering him. I looked closely, then looked again with my ophthalmoscope.