Kill every last porcupine 🤬

[Obi-Wan]

Wow! You know I have been fairly drunk before….kicking a porky while wearing sandals has to be an extreme case of being hammered.

Add the fact he’s not the sharpest pencil in the drawer

 

[1bigfokker]

Junar
What if you don't have any way of killing it first, are they fast?
Do you have to climb the tree?
What if you are afraid of heights?
Can you just shake the tree?
Could you build a fire around the tree to smoke him out?
If I used my foot would I get a quils in my shoes or do I need to wear a special shoe that is puncture resistant?
Could a person use a flint sharp rock to remove the skin?

I hit one once with a truck and the quills were stuck in the sidewall of the fuckin tire.

 

[Rut2much]

U have about as much patience with some of these responses as myself Trip (JD) but we're kinda thread from the same quilt ...God speed pup and I can vouch to how good of a dog u have there..
F skunks, snakes, mice, porkys, raccoons, stinky ass mink, and muskrats,..(Save the coyotes for me and SY)..

Dudes just looking for some good advice/pointers..some yall need to settle your damn britches for real..#TSGH

 

[snow2]

Wow! You know I have been fairly drunk before….kicking a porky while wearing sandals has to be an extreme case of being hammered.

Lol ,i wamna party with jiffy...lol

 

[Retired-Guy]

Wow! You know I have been fairly drunk before….kicking a porky while wearing sandals has to be an extreme case of being hammered.

Had a friend in Minnesota that lived out of town. He was at the neighbors using the sauna and I'm sure drinking heavily. Anyway, on his walk home in the dark he came across a bag of trash on the road so he punted it. Turned out to be a skunk! Phew!

 

[KDM]

Aloha Snackbar!!

We always yelled F*&K YOU akbar, followed closely by sharp loud noises. I liked it when they yelled that crap. Easier to pinpoint locations. Damn Booger Eaters.

 

[Trip McNeely]

U have about as much patience with some of these responses as myself Trip (JD) but we're kinda thread through the same quilt ...God speed pup and I can oath to how good of a dog u got..
F skunks, snakes, mice, porkys, raccoons, stinky ass mink, and muskrats,..(Save the coyotes for me and SY)..

Dudes just looking for some good advice/pointers..some yall need to settle your damn britches for real..#TSGH

Keep up the good work eradicating those critters. Every time I see you post up another dead coyote pic I smile knowing another animal or 12 was just saved. You need a spot to yote hunt this winter that has a few more hills let me know. I know just the place

 

[svnmag]

Update: she’s been slowly letting us take out a few more. There cant be more than a few left in her one paw. It looks like it’s swelling a bit now. I made an appointment with the vet tomorrow to get antibiotics and she’ll take a look at it. She needed her shots updated soon anyhow. I don’t blame the porcupine at all nor the dog. I don’t think the dog knew the porcupine was there and accidentally hopped on it as she was crashing through a very small patch of buck brush. Had she smelled it and was curious or knew it was there her nose and face woulda been covered and she had none above the neckline. Her paws took the brunt of it. She’s a sweetheart of a dog and this ordeal definitely knocked the wind out of her sails. She doesn’t even wanna get up now. Been an awesome dog so far with the very little amount of time Ive been able to work with her. Soft mouthed, stays close, doesn’t break off conmand, really birdy, flushes well and retrieves like she’s been doing it for years……she doesn’t hesitate to crash through the cattails or buck brush either……..realistically porcupines arent good for much and after this experience I’ll save someone else the trouble and pop every one I see moving forward.

I don't know if this could be applicable to you. This stuff is good to draw out infection to a head. The dog MAY lick it once...you may still want to cover with a bandage:

It also works for boils on teenage boy's shoulders.

 

[Coldfront]

Well, something Ive dreaded finally happened this evening. My 2 year old golden finally met up with her first porcupine…. She got it pretty good on the front paws and neck. Thank god she didn’t get any on her face or mouth. I had to carry her back to the truck. She’s pretty submissive and mild tempered so we were able to pull a lot out in the field and in the ride home. I got almost all of them out but there’s still maybe 5-6 on her front paw that she won’t let me touch. Anyone have any experience or suggestions on how to get her calmed down enough to help her. Im trying to avoid any major vet bills at this point as Im pretty confident Ive gotten most of them, even the hard to see broken off ones. Maybe 40-60 pulled out so far……. I pumped 3 rounds of 2 shot into that fat son of bitch so he won’t be hurting anything ever again.

Take a towel and cover her eyes. you should have at least 3 people to help

 

[Allen]

I've had the pleasure of a dog getting quilled a number of times in my life, both hunting and farm dogs where I was the first responder. I'd say it is usually the dog's fault, and sometimes it's nobody's fault as the dog just literally RAN into it in tall cover.

Anyway, there have been a number of outcomes. Some of the dogs just sat and stoically let me pull them, others were bordering on rabid if I got anywhere near the quills. Depends on the dog's temperament.

My go-to tool for quill removal is a pair of needle-nose pliers with a 90-degree bend in the jaws. They are far superior in getting a quick grab on a quill than any straight-jawed implement I've tried, forceps, leatherman, etc.

If your dog has any quills that became broken off, I would strongly encourage you to take the dog to the vet. When knocked out, the vet can freely feel around for those broken off quills. Those that are not found and removed will continue to work their way through the dog. One of my GSPs had some broken off in the roof of his mouth. A couple years later he developed some sores on the upper side of his snout. Yep, they were the quills coming up through his upper jaw. As Snow noted, in the chest...these can kill your dog if they work into the heart or lungs.

As far as cutting the quills, it doesn't do any good as far as I can tell. If you look closely at a quill, deflating the shaft won't do anything to lessen the gripping power of the barbs on the quill as the barbs are not hollow. It's like saying cutting your arrow shaft would help you in pulling an arrow out of a deer, or XXXX.

I won't tolerate porcupines around the home, but in the field I usually give them a pass. They are just another part of nature, and nature is cool.

If I am fortunate enough to run across a live or dead porcupine with a E-collared dog, I immediately turn that into a training experience.

 

[Trip McNeely]

My go-to tool for quill removal is a pair of needle-nose pliers with a 90-degree bend in the jaws. They are far superior in getting a quick grab on a quill than any straight-jawed implement I've tried, forceps, leatherman, etc.

After pulling some 80-100 quills the last two days you are 100% correct on this. We used a regular smaller needle nose but a foreceps with a bend would have worked a lot better. Especially for the broken off ones with little showing to pull on. And from my newly acquired experience having a full needle to pull or at least get the pliers around is way easier than the ones broken or cut off so I wouldn’t recommend cutting the needles either. And I used to think nature was cool doing nature shit and stuff but realized if you let nature shit do nature shit while you’re innocently doing nature shit…… nature will shit on your attempt to do nature shit . This whole situation changed my perspective on porcupines and how neat nature is….. where you call the field could be nearer someone’s home….. lol save a dog….. blast a porky.

 

[Allen]

That's a lot of quills in one outing. I've only had to deal with that many a few times, but it is as they say kind of like eating an elephant...just take it one bite at a time. Hope your pup comes out healthy and smarter after this.