Fishhook in dog’s nose on Conwy beach gives owner ‘hour of hell’

She believes that the hooks washed ashore after a competition for anglers on the beach some months before.

But she did not think it was the anglers’ fault they ended up on the beach. “It’s not because the fishermen are being untidy, it’s that they are unable to retrieve them once snapped,” she said.

However, she is concerned about their impact and if her friends had not been there, believed it would have been “disastrous” for her dog.

“They’re quite hard to see, they’re little but lethal,” she said. “Not just for animals but also humans, maybe children running barefoot.”

She used social media to warn others to watch out for the hooks. It led to an offer from one person with a metal detector to search the beach and get rid of them.

So how is Betty now?

“Back to her happy self,” Cheryl said.