Dog vs porcupine Warning - graphic!

[konadog]

In the discussion about dogs and anaesthetic UnDun* mentioned dogs and porcupines and I remembered these pictures WOW! This dog survived too! There are no porcupines here on the Island, but I have met a few dogs that have survived encounters of the prickly kind. The most dramatic story I heard was from a tough old Chilcoton back-country rancher years ago. Now this was WAY back-of-beyond. No vets, or stores, or phones for hundreds of kilometres and bullet-hard ranchers who would rather set their own broken bones than drive to town. So the first time this dog went at a porker it ended up looking like the character in the picture. His rancher sat on him and with a pair of pliers and a bottle of iodine he extracted all the quills and treated each wound. Dog survived all right, but didn't learn anything from the torment 'cause the very next time he saw a pin-cushion waddling along he went after it. Maybe looking for revenge... Of course he ended up with his rancher sitting on him with the pliers and the iodine and once again he survived... To do it yet again His rancher loved him, but didn't extract the quills this time, just took him for "The Long Walk." Ahh well, If he were a wolf he probably would have died a horrible, painful death by infection the first time and not even had one, let alone TWO chances to figure out that porcupines are best left ALONE!!!

[s_crzy_dg_ldy]

That don't even look real!! Is there a bald porcupine walking around right now? GEESH!!

[morkie mom]

good lord!!! I debated with myself on weather or not to look curisoty won, but geeezze thats gotta hurt!!!

[fairlight]

That is horrible!!! My breeder recently emailed me a pic of her mastiffs that got a hold of a porcupine last month. Here is one of the pics.

[lilya]

Oh god no!
That is TERRIBLE!

[Hudsons~Mom]

Aww that made my heart ach....I feel so bad for that dog....I wonder how much the vets charge to de-pin a dog???

[groominglady]

Vets charge a LOT. When I was a kid, we went to Spring River, OR, and our friend's husky-malamute cross killed porkies twice in the course of one weekend. He looked much like that first dog. I remember the vet allowing everyone to help de-quill the dog because he was just one vet in Prineville with his wife being the help. Even then, the bill was pretty high. Beckett was a crazy dog....

[fairlight]

You can't blame the porcupine though. I didn't know until I was in my 40's that they really didn't shoot their quills at all. I too have seen something like this but that goodness it was not as bad as the pictures that we posted. I was sitting at the vets with Vanilla years ago and a man brought in his dog. It was hard to trell if the dog was a boxer or a bull dog because his face was covered. This dog was just howling in pain.

[~WelshStump~]

Yeah, the first picture take the cake! I though I saw the worst when they had those two on Animal planet some time ago. 2 Staffies had tangled with one, and they pulled quills out of every crack and crevas of those dogs!

But, yeah I've never seen one as bad as that bull! I hope I never have to personally come into contact with something like this. The closes I've ever seen a Pork was driving down the highway about 35-40mins away, dead of coarse (could you imagine the conversation in that car?).

[konadog]

I say good for the porker! It's a tough life being a wild animal - no human filling up your food dish - no vet, no nice cozy bed in front of the fire - just work, hardship, and danger. All this and then some well fed, easy-life dog comes along and attacks you. Chasing or otherwise molesting wildlife of any kind is strictly forbidden in our pack