BYC Café

[ShrekDawg]

It depends on how the DNR wants to deal with it. The cataloging won’t take place until the fall anyway.

Ah that stinks

 

[DobieLover]

Our dogs got a hold of a porcupine when I was growing up so they are in the upper Sacramento Valley. It was quite an ordeal to get the quills out

My first male Dobie, Dylan, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when he was 5.5 years old. On one of his visits to see his cardiologist, a Swedish doctor, I told her about my little red girl, Bridget, getting quilled 2 days prior. Bridget basically slammed her open mouth onto the porcupine then screamed and tried to pull the quills out of her mouth, throat and face. She then ran off toward the car screaming the whole way. The back of my car was a bloodbath.
The cardiologist then told me a story about a dog that presented to her with obvious heart distress that she was unable to treat successfully and the dog died. This dog had been quilled almost a month before the heart issue started. She necropsied him and found that a porcupine quill had penetrated behind the dogs elbow. The quill drove itself through the thoracic cavity then through the heart.

 

[CapricornFarm]

My first male Dobie, Dylan, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when he was 5.5 years old. On one of his visits to see his cardiologist, a Swedish doctor, I told her about my little red girl, Bridget, getting quilled 2 days prior. Bridget basically slammed her open mouth onto the porcupine then screamed and tried to pull the quills out of her mouth, throat and face. She then ran off toward the car screaming the whole way. The back of my car was a bloodbath.
The cardiologist then told me a story about a dog that presented to her with obvious heart distress that she was unable to treat successfully and the dog died. This dog had been quilled almost a month before the heart issue started. She necropsied him and found that a porcupine quill had penetrated behind the dogs elbow. The quill drove itself through the thoracic cavity then through the heart.

How terrible!

 

[ronott1]

My first male Dobie, Dylan, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when he was 5.5 years old. On one of his visits to see his cardiologist, a Swedish doctor, I told her about my little red girl, Bridget, getting quilled 2 days prior. Bridget basically slammed her open mouth onto the porcupine then screamed and tried to pull the quills out of her mouth, throat and face. She then ran off toward the car screaming the whole way. The back of my car was a bloodbath.
The cardiologist then told me a story about a dog that presented to her with obvious heart distress that she was unable to treat successfully and the dog died. This dog had been quilled almost a month before the heart issue started. She necropsied him and found that a porcupine quill had penetrated behind the dogs elbow. The quill drove itself through the thoracic cavity then through the heart.

My Dad told us that the Quill will keep moving deeper because of the way the quill is shaped an being hollow.

 

[CapricornFarm]

My Dad told us that the Quill will keep moving deeper because of the way the quill is shaped an being hollow.

Good thing my Shelties listened and came back from chasing a porcupine! Of course, that was over 20 years ago.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

My Dad told us that the Quill will keep moving deeper because of the way the quill is shaped an being hollow.

I’m just glad the worst thing my dogs can get ahold of here is a skunk.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I’m just glad the worst thing my dogs can get ahold of here is a skunk.

Yeah, we have bears...

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Yeah, we have bears...

Again, glad I’m in Indiana! Biggest animal we have is whitetail and coyotes.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Again, glad I’m in Indiana! Biggest animal we have is whitetail and coyotes.

We have them too. Had mountain lions in TN.

 

[DobieLover]

How terrible!

Those porcupines aren't to be messed with.
A woman I work, Michelle, also has a large male Doberman, Shadow, who for whatever reason, idolizes Ben. We take turns taking eachothers boy over the weekend so they can play. I picked Ben up from Michelle one Sunday night and she proceeded to tell me how Ben had been quilled Saturday morning. She pulled quills out of his muzzle, inside his lips, under his tongue, his gums and the roof of his mouth. Needless to say, I nearly strangled her for not telling me Saturday morning. All I can picture is her having missed one and it driving through his sinus cavity into his brain. When I told her about the dog that had the quill go through his heart she definitely got nervous but assured me she got all the quills. Ben's still here so she did but she'll think twice before not letting me know.