Very nice looking Choc Lab pup.
One of my first walks with Yellow Lab pup resulted in a $500vet bill. The leash was too long and he was being a puppy asshole. He was about
three months old at the time, darting into every sniff that he thought looked interesting. Well he darted into a mature chollo cactus and was covered with barbed needles over his face, throat, and legs. It's the only time in the nearly two-years Ive had him, have I heard him yelp. He then proceed to snap at the embeded spines, getting several into his tongue and inner lips.
I had no chance being alone with him toget the spines out myself. He was strong enough even at three months to make extracting the splines impossible by myself. His vet was only a couple of miles away, and it was 7:30 in the morning, so I loaded him up and off we went. The vets and staff were in the office when we arrived and they took him immediately, knocked him out and went to work using all three of the clinics techs. About 2 hours later, he was spine-free, but they kept him all day to make sure he recovered from the anesthesia without any probles.
The offinding cactus was adacent to a well traveled sidewalk, in a family neighborhood. The cactus has been delt with appropriately.