Bark N Wag 15 Minute Vet Talk

Dogs Try To Befriend Porcupine And Things Don't Go As Planned   Here's what to do if this happens to you (ouch!)   BY LILY FEINN PUBLISHED ON 06/29/2018   It was one of the scariest things Peggy Gamblin had ever experienced. During the night, her two dogs, Bentley Nicole and Bullwinkle, had gone wandering around her property in Brown County, Texas, and encountered a porcupine on their turf.   When Gamblin found her dogs cowering in pain the next morning, there was no question who won the fight.   A single porcupine can have upwards of 30,000 quills, making the gentle herbivore a fierce enemy when frightened — and Gamblin’s dogs found out the hard way.         Gamblin rushed her pups to the vet, where it took over an hour and a half to remove hundreds of quills. Bullwinkle, a Boston terrier, is on the mend, but he's still recovering from the unpleasant encounter.   “It was very scary and we are still going to the vet once a week because he got a staph infection,” Gamblin told The Dodo.