removing quills from a dog

[TsPoet]

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]

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.