How to remove burdock from dogs' coat

[zxcvbob]

Penny is a rough-coated Aussie and very fluffy, and has a good bit of undercoat even tho' it's summer.  She looks like an enormous Pomeranian.    She ran thru some burdock and is covered in burrs.  I've been teasing them out, or in some cases crumbling them with my thumbnails so I can get the pieces out.  But there are a few that are stuck tight very close to her skin on her belly and "arm pits".  Is there any trick to getting those?  They are too tight to cut them out.  Maybe give her a bath and try to remove them while they are wet? 

I've also heard of using coconut oil to soften them and turn the hair loose (I'd probably use rendered turkey and chicken fat; it melts at about the same temperature as coconut oil, and I have almost a pound of it) But the video I watched where they used coconut oil; the burrs were really not in there all that bad and they probably could have been teased out without it.

I think she's been chewing some of them out, but not the really bad ones.

[zxcvbob]

I think I got at least half of them out; starting with the worst ones. There's about 10 times as many as I thought. I stopped because I was testing her patience. I'll dig some more out later. For the next 20 minutes we're playing with a ball and eating treats (cooked green beans; she loves them)

These things worked remarkably well; I got a lot of them out intact or almost intact:
https://www.harborfreight.com/mini-pick-and-hook-set-63697.html?_br_psugg_q=pick+set

[Ben]

Glad you're getting your buddy taken care of. I had to look up burdock. The seedheads look just like the Canadian thistle we get out this way. That stuff is tall though, so it's not a dog problem. The problem here is the cocklebur. Not a problem for Steve and his short coat, and he manages to avoid them anyway, but Barney the cat attracts them like a magnet, and the little dude does NOT like it when you try to pull them out, and they are in like glue. I'll have to try that pick trick next time.

[K Frame]

Those are a pain in the ass.

Here's an article form the AKC.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/how-to-get-burrs-out-of-dog-fur/

I've used olive oil before to help lubricate the burr and that makes it a bit easier to get the fur to release from the burr.

[Kingcreek]

I sympathize with you and your buddy.
I used to have a hunting golden retriever. He was a hell of a good bird dog but was a burr magnet.

[JTHunter]

Using those sharply pointed metal picks could be a problem.
Have you tried a plastic hair comb to get under and lift those burrs out?  I had a dog years ago that would come back from hunting looking like a "connect-the-dot" picture.  I would get the comb under the burr and wiggle the comb gently back & forth until I could get my fingers on the fur under the burr.  Then I could pull harder.
What was really funny was when she got covered with those little green burrs about 1/8" diameter in the spring.

[zxcvbob]

Using those sharply pointed metal picks could be a problem.
Have you tried a plastic hair comb to get under and lift those burrs out?  I had a dog years ago that would come back from hunting looking like a "connect-the-dot" picture.  I would get the comb under the burr and wiggle the comb gently back & forth until I could get my fingers on the fur under the burr.  Then I could pull harder.
What was really funny was when she got covered with those little green burrs about 1/8" diameter in the spring.

I hate those little green burrs.  There's another prickly seed that will be out soon and is a real problem; the seeds look like a goat's head with 2 horns.  It's not a goathead; that's a totally different weed.  I'm trying to pull them all up before they seed.  But the ones now are burdock.  Very large burrs that I think have tiny hooks on the ends of the spikes.  At least they are not particularly sharp.

I'm only using the pick to open up the top of the tangle so I can get the burr out.  I'm being very careful not to try to get under it and maybe poke or scratch her skin with it.  A comb wouldn't help at all with these, they are too big.  After I get the burr out I can comb out the rest of the tangle