removing quills from a dog

**Flybye** · 10-20-2007, 07:53 PM

I remember your pooch as the force to be reckoned with aka. the coyote in the fall leaves thread. Poor baby.

It reminded me of a picture that I saw a few years back. This pooch didn't know when enough was enough!

**oxysback** · 10-20-2007, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Flybye

I remember your pooch as the force to be reckoned with aka. the coyote in the fall leaves thread. Poor baby.

It reminded me of a picture that I saw a few years back. This pooch didn't know when enough was enough!

Holy cow!! I'm in pain just looking at that picture!

**elk** · 10-20-2007, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by Flybye

I remember your pooch as the force to be reckoned with aka. the coyote in the fall leaves thread. Poor baby.

It reminded me of a picture that I saw a few years back. This pooch didn't know when enough was enough!

betcha it was a pitbull or a pit mix....look at the blocky head and the body...and that's what makes a terrier a terrier...never give up!

OUCHY...TsPoet...You did right to take them in...you don't want to do that; it's HARD! That's what we pay the professionals for...

Also, anytime sedation is involved, extra monitoring is necessary...thus higher prices...

**OakLeaf** · 10-21-2007, 05:37 AM

Yeah, I agree. Think about what it costs to get minor surgery under general anesthesia for yourself, then you'll realize that $350 for a dog is a bargain. It's almost identical in terms of expertise, drugs and equipment.

I remember when I was a kid and my dad and my uncle pulled quills out of our dog. Yeah they did it, yeah the quills came out, no the dog didn't get infected.

Besides pliers, it takes two adults (one to hold the dog, one to pull the quills) who are physically strong enough to do the holding (IMO few women would qualify, and if you've ever tried to hold your dog for a mere nail trim you know what I mean), and emotionally strong enough to hang on and/or pull when the dog screams and struggles (IMO few MEN who are not ranchers or hunters would qualify).

**Brandi** · 10-21-2007, 06:18 AM

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

**ibcycling** · 10-21-2007, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by elk

betcha it was a pitbull or a pit mix....look at the blocky head and the body...and that's what makes a terrier a terrier...never give up!

OUCHY...TsPoet...You did right to take them in...you don't want to do that; it's HARD! That's what we pay the professionals for...

Also, anytime sedation is involved, extra monitoring is necessary...thus higher prices...

Nose is too long for a pit. If I remember right that pic is a bull terrier. That picture always makes me cringe!

Lora

**elk** · 10-21-2007, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by ibcycling

Nose is too long for a pit. If I remember right that pic is a bull terrier. That picture always makes me cringe!

Lora

But what about that red on the flank? I don't think I've ever seen a red and white Bully....The head is so swollen any breed would look like a BT!!! Makes sense either way...it's so extreme!!!

**ibcycling** · 10-21-2007, 11:30 AM

Found her on Snopes (I love snopes

)

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

If their info is correct her name is Inca and she's a Bull Terrier. There's another picture there too. White seems to be the most recognized color (thanks to Spudz) but they come in tri, brindle, black, red, and fawn. Maybe she's a brindle with too much white or a white with a splash of brindle? Who knows, just hope she recovered ok.

How are your dog's doing TSPoet?

Lora

**TsPoet** · 10-21-2007, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by ibcycling

Found her on Snopes (I love snopes

)

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

If their info is correct her name is Inca and she's a Bull Terrier.

How are your dog's doing TSPoet?

Lora

Compared to Inca, they've don't have any problem at all!

Murphy was pretty thrown by the anesthesia. Poor dog, every time he quite shivering I poked him because I thought he'd died! Finn was OK by the next morning. They are both OK now - we had a nice 5 mile walk and ran into no critters on it at all, very nice.
If this ever happens again, I'm going to do the same thing - I don't think I could bare to pull the quills out myself and there is only 1 other person besides me that can touch Murphy, so I'd be dependent on her holding him.

thanks for all the replies.
I don't think I'll ever get the picture of that poor quill-infested head of Inca's out of my head!

**MomOnBike** · 10-21-2007, 06:22 PM

Oh, the memories that brings. No pics, thankfully.

When we lived in the exact middle of nowhere, Solomon (the stupidest dog ever) BIT a porcupine. On two separate occasions.

Neither time was as bad as the pit bull, but it was bad enough.

DH & I pulled quills - probably a couple hundred - from that dog the first time. They were between his teeth, in his tongue, on the roof of his mouth, in addition to all over the outside of his face. In the end, I had to gag him with a rolled-up sheet and literally lie on top of him so that DH could wield the pliers. It was quite a rodeo, and when we were done, there was literally blood on the walls and cowering children in the bedroom.

The second time (just as bad) we wimped out and took him 30 miles into town to the vet.

Probably the quills that required the most finesse were the two that worked their way all the way through the top of his mouth and came out, looking rather like horns, on the top of his nose. Oddly, Solomon didn't like us getting near his face at that point, so it took a bit of doing on my part to get rid of those two.

Yeah, my animals have had porcupine run-ins. We don't even want to talk about the horses who have gotten a face-full.

**elk** · 10-21-2007, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by ibcycling

Found her on Snopes (I love snopes

)

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

If their info is correct her name is Inca and she's a Bull Terrier. There's another picture there too. White seems to be the most recognized color (thanks to Spudz) but they come in tri, brindle, black, red, and fawn. Maybe she's a brindle with too much white or a white with a splash of brindle? Who knows, just hope she recovered ok.

How are your dog's doing TSPoet?

Lora

Wow! That's a great site...and I stand humbly corrected... !!! I AM a fan of that breed....but like border collies...not for me!

**ibcycling** · 10-21-2007, 06:57 PM

Sorry, wasn't trying to humble or correct you.

I just love researching stuff and thought I remembered seeing it on Snopes. You're right that terriers don't know when they should quit. Lotsa heart and determination!

Lora

**Hub** · 10-24-2007, 06:57 AM

Poor babies- and their momma- I think everyone needs cookies- Alpo Snaps for the babies- maybe pepperidge farm for mom.

**violette** · 10-24-2007, 08:16 AM

I was always told that those quills have a suction. If you cut the tip off, the suction stops and the quills come out a lot better. I guess that wasn't true.

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