Sorry, I'm not in Kansas so I can't answer your question!
All I DO know is, we have those kind of sticky shedding trees over here, and they're a complete nightmare...it's strange how it's not every year, but thank goodness it isn't!
A few years back, a whole clump of them got really stuck in our Schnauzers paw - really worked right in. I tried and tried but couldn't get the 'highest' ones out
Bathing, tweezers - nothing would budge them.
We ended up at the vet's having to have them cut out aaargh! Quite a lot of money later, I decided to keep him away from those trees...
Sally + Harry x