In the early 1940s, Swiss inventor George de Mestral was taking a walk with his pup when he noticed cockleburs stuck to his dog's coat. (petsmagazine.com.sg)
I spent whole summers with a group of guys, chopping cockleburs and button weeds in the cornfields and talking the way teenage boys talk when they're off by themselves. (religion-online.org)
The downside to goldens is their coats are magnets for cockleburs, stickers, and general debris, which requires extra maintenance at the end of a hunt. (wildfowlmag.com)