Yesterday afternoon, Tinker – our black and tan Dachshund – limped up to Honey favoring her left front foot. A check of the foot revealed a big splinter stuck in the pad of one of her toes.
Honey could not get a grip on the splinter with her fingers, and I couldn’t either, so she took Tinker into the house to get some tweezers.
With Tinker (who was remaining amazingly calm through all this) cradled in her lap, Honey approached the splinter with the tweezers and it just fell off.
The splinter was not a splinter at all – it was the tip on the bottom of an acorn!
Somehow Tinker had managed to step on an empty acorn shell and slip it over her toe like Cinderella’s slipper. The dry, scuffed and dirty shell matched the skin on her other toes so well we did not realize what it was until it fell off.
Once it did, Tinker was fine and ran off to play.
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