Veldt (aka Mission) Grass Seeds

[sandgrubber]

Poor itchy beasts!!!! Flea treatment hasn't helped. Then, in the daily scratch scratch rub rub routine, I started finding scads of these bloody little seeds from the horrid red-stemmed grass -- Veldt grass or Mission grass (an African native, also a fire hazard, loves it in perth)--- buried deep in their coats. The rubber tipped brushes I use don't touch them . . . an undercoat rake works, though. The dogs now gather around when I bring out the undercoat rake. Those with a proper duo coat, coarse outercoat, are worst affected. This seems to have been a good seed year for veldt grass.

Has anyone else had this problem? How do you get rid of the f####ng grass? Is there a solution other than keeping the dogs in? (or cutting all the grass)?