Awns are the reason why walking your dog through a pre-harvest wheat field is a bad idea. These bristles are designed by nature to stick animal fur. It's hard to overestimate just how bad they can be ...

Parks, fields, forests - just about anywhere a dog wants to go, you'll find them lurking. Awns are the bristly parts at the top of wheat, barley and many wild grasses found both in urban and rural ...