My Reagan dog's back feet have an infection in them. I noticed his skin between his toes started swelling and getting red and eventually formed large swollen masses under his skin with a small sores at the tip with "BEARDED CLAM" coming out of it between each of his toes. I took him to the vet and he said it looked like some sort of seed or sticker from grass/weeds had gotten lodged beneath his skin. He said that it was typically some sort of seed with a pointed tip and a blunt end, similar to wheat or some grasses. He opened up the sore and dug around and pulled out what looked like little shards of splinters. He sent me home with some antibiotics and a syringe to flush out the wounds twice a day. Well, that was 2 weeks ago and the sores were better but now are starting to slowly come back. I called the vet and he said the only other thing to do would be to put him under and dig even further down to pull out the remaining particles. I am going to wait a couple more days to see if it improves, but it looks like he is gonna have to have surgery and get his feet sliced open.
Anybody heard of this type of infection before? He said he saw it alot in TN, mostly from wheat seeds. I started thinking and remembered I threw out wheat on my dove field about a week before all this started. Go figure...
We haven't been able to train hardly at all in 3 weeks and with HT season just around the corner it looks like our quest for his HR title will have to wait until next spring.
i wonder if there was already a cut on his foot and it enter that way and then healed up..... then the infection started? always good thing to keep close look at ya dogs feet! they gotta have em 
hope he gets well soon 
