Ouch!
Shortly after returning to Summer Sage from the coyote experience, Brandy was walking strangely with her body lowered. I thought that she was perhaps on the trail of a coyote. However, after brievly watching her, I saw a sand burr on her left, rear paw pad. I raised her leg, pulled out the burr and felt the the pad. I found a piece of the burr which had broken off in her pad. She let me work with her without complaint. The piece of burr was so short that I couldn’t get it out with my fingernails, so I picked her up and carried her home. As I came in the door, I called for Shirley to get the tweezers. I gently put Brandy on her side, took off my glasses (I have microscopic vision without my glasses), and pulled out the piece of burr. Brandy got up and was just fine.
As she was shortchanged on the previous hike, we took off again on a different hike, along the San Diego aqueduct.