Greetings,
In Minnesota here, buds have opened on the trees and there's a particular tree (I don't know if its the Elm, Birch, or Elder) that has shed some stick oval seeds (attached to furry-cotton like blossoms). The girls, when going outside love to run out there and when they come in I have to brush them and try to get all the seeds off of them. It's awful. The worst areas are the paws as the seeds stick within the paw pads and it is not a pleasant experience for them (it hurts) to have us pull or manipulate the seeds out of their paws. I have tried water on the paws which seems to help a little more than taken them off direct (it pulls the hair on the poor girls). I raked the whole back yard yesterday to get a majority of seeds, well of course more fell today and it just is a horrible experience for them. They get scared just when we come near their paws.
I feel so bad for them but wouldn't be worse if we left the sticky seeds on their paws?
Does anyone have a solution as to the easiest way to get these off their paws without it being so difficult and tramatic?
Thank you.
