pitbull vs porucpine

[working woman]

What happens when a pitbull picks a fight with a porupine? Somewhere out there is a naked porcupine!

 

[Snowcat Operations]

Man that is one dog who will NEVER pick a fight with a Porcupine again! If he lives. I have never seen anything like that before. Maybe 4 to 5 quills but never ALL of them! We have them up here but I never really see them.

 

[Snowcat Operations]

So what was the outcome for this dog?

 

[thcri]

I am thinking that dog won't make it. That just seems too painful to me.


murph

 

[Snowcat Operations]

They are all in its mouth and I am sure a few are by now in its throat. So Working Woman what is the current staus of this poor dog?

 

[Snowcat Operations]

If they can get them all then he will recover I believe. Man I cant even imagine the pain that dog is in.

 

[ALLEN PARSONS]

To me that looks like one stupid dog,

 

[Snowcat Operations]

Thats what my 6 year old daughter said. To me it looks like something out of a horor movie.

 

[Doc]

I guess her name is Inca. And she is doing okay. I found a post saying it happened back in 2005. They had a link for more info, but that link has since been broken.
more here:
http://www.boxer-dog.org/chat/viewtopic.php?t=7933

 

[Wannafish]

Man that is one dog who will NEVER pick a fight with a Porcupine again! If he lives.

He will be more determined the next time...and the next, and the next.
We have a german shephard that has looked like that on several occasions. Every spring he'd break his chain, go find a porky, and come back looking like that. He's old and crippled now - about 18 - and other than an intense dislike of the vet he has survived several assaults quite well.

 

[Dargo]

Yes, I saw that picture a couple of years ago. It still hurts to look at it! I assume it learned to stay away from the little prickley animal like my German Shepherd, Bruno, has learned to stay away from the little black kitty cats that have a white stripe down their back. What a dope! Bruno has been sprayed at least 3 times now; maybe 4. I'm just glad we don't have porcupines around here...

 

[elsmitro]

Stupid Hurts!

"It was pretty scary at first. She is doing okay now, but looks like a World War III survivor as they had to cut some out in places, stitched between her toes, and many quills bled on removal.

"There are still quills buried in her, but they should work their way out over time (I pulled four more today). She is on antibiotics and pain meds and thankfully is doing quite well...."

http://www.rgj.com/blogs/mostlydogs/labels/encounters%20with%20wild%20life.html

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/porcupinedog.asp

 

[XeVfTEUtaAqJHTqq]

I had to pull 32 quills out my Lab/Weimaraner once. It was Halloween evening and we were too far from a vet and he was flipping out. I had to shove one through his palate. I'm not sure if I heard it here but apparently the trick(which I didn't know at the time) is to cut the quills as they have a gas inside them that expands on impact. I think I spent three hours wrestling quills out of his mouth. Lots of blood and yelling.

Anyways, after that he only attacked one more porcupine (he had to see if it was just a fluke). But he only got 10 or so quills on the second try.

 

[Doc]

Make me wonder how the animals get the quills out in the wild. That would be tough.

 

[Snowcat Operations]

Usually the quills continue on there path. They have a barb that just keeps working forward as the animal move. Depending on what is in its path in can be fatal. Organs, brain ect ect. They dont come out unless they travel all the way through OR someone removes them with pliers and or knife.

 

[elsmitro]

How to: http://www.thepetcenter.com/gen/pq.html