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Dog 0, Porcupine 2

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Good friends of ours own a beautiful farm in the Western Cape. They have two lovely dogs who enjoy farm life to the fullest. Until they encountered a porcupine. Poor dogs, hope they learned their lesson.

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Ouch...
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Ouch... They must take care of those wounds as they turn septic very easily
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That looks ouch hope they recover
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They are lucky they didnt lose their eyes !!!! you must get them to a vet to sterilize the wounds otherwise as Cassie states they will go septic very very quickly.......alternatively you can by a can of wound antiseptic from the vets, its a blue spray, they will look daft but they wont get infected whilst they are healing.....
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Chatted to my friend the dogs are doing good back from the vet they very swollen and feeling very sorry for themselves
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Elton wrote:Chatted to my friend the dogs are doing good back from the vet they very swollen and feeling very sorry for themselves
ai shame man !! well they have certainly learnt their lesson with that one !! just glad to hear they are ok !!!!
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Poor, poor doggies... :cry: :cry: :cry: glad to hear they are getting better... shame man.... lesson learnt, I hope.. :( :( :(
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I have cold shivers. Glad the pooches are recovering. Please buy them some Doggy Treat to aid the process.


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Shame, poor dogs! I'm sure the dogs will be just fine after their ordeal. ;-)

Both look like they have Staffie blood in them, so I doubt that they would have "learned their lesson". If they had, they would have aborted after the first or second piercing, but each one has a dozen or more quills. I'm afraid that they will re-engage a porcupine should they encounter one again.

The eyes are the most worrisome factor, they can loose them easily with a porcupine. The other wounds are neither here nor there on the serious scale and a vet visit is not necessary.

Muzzle the dog if you have to when removing the quills, but I doubt it will be necessary ... Staffies have a high threshold for pain. When removing the quills, turn (rotate) them at the same time as pulling so that it comes out clean and easy. Irrigate all the wounds with a 10% Hydrogen-Peroxide solution and allow to dry off a little before using the blue spray mentioned (Necro-spray). If you don't have Necro-spray, dabbing with gentian violet or Eusol will do. Be careful not to get peroxide or Necro-spray into their eyes.

The dogs will lick their wounds and their saliva has anti-bacterial properties, so don't stop them from doing this. However, once or twice daily peroxide treatment is required, especially of the wounds that they cannot get to.

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Useless fact... Eusol is actually an acronym for Edinburgh University solution of lime
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Heard an interesting story around a camp fire in Montagu not long ago. The guys said they have a dog which kills porcupines. Apparently the skull of a porcupine is very soft under the bunch of "hair" on top of his head. Somehow this dog figured it out. So he will run around the porcupine until he get a clear shot then grab that bunch of pens (which look like hair) and tear it off. Apparently the porcy dies almost instantly then.
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