Ouch....poor puppy ! ! !
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Ouch....poor puppy ! ! !
Dogs and porcupines don't seem to play well together.
Got these in an e-mail today. Said the vet took out 1300+ quills.......I've never met a porcupine and after seeing this, dont think I never want to !
I wonder why the dog just couldnt leave the damn thing alone....
Got these in an e-mail today. Said the vet took out 1300+ quills.......I've never met a porcupine and after seeing this, dont think I never want to !
I wonder why the dog just couldnt leave the damn thing alone....
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ORIGINAL: Dennis
Dumbass dog..you'd think after the first go around he would have learned...
Dumbass dog..you'd think after the first go around he would have learned...
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Don't get me wrong..I really feel sorry for the dumb dog...I hate to say it but, this could be fatal for the poor bastard..Or it's gonnamake a vet very rich andbusy for several hours, and that may not even save his life...porcupine quills will break off and travel throughout the body and eventually end up in his heart and brain.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1482438
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1482438
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RE: Ouch....poor puppy ! ! !
My god poor pooch! [&o] That HAD to be a stupid dog though to get that many quills in him. That didn't happen all at once? I mean does a porcupine shot that many of those things at one time?
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That dog is Inca, a female bull terrier. (She is fine) See the following link for more info at Snopes.....
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/porcupinedog.asp
A little porc-u-lore for you guys as well:
That a
porcupine can throw its quills at an attacker is a widely-believed bit of animal misinformation. Porcupines bristle up when alarmed, and a small muscle attached to each quill pulls it upright in the fur.
When a porcupine chooses to fight its adversary rather than flee, it quickly jumps at its opponent, often skewering it with those bristled-out quills. This jumping movement is extremely fast and has given rise to the myth that a porcupine launches the barbs from a distance.
The porcupine has an estimated 30,000 quills on its body and is thus not incapacitated even by the loss of several hundred quills during a fight. He's still armed and dangerous.
New quills grow in to replace lost ones. There are no quills on this critter's muzzle, legs, or underside. On the face, the quills are only about a half-inch long, but on the back they may be up to five inches in length.
This same false belief has accrued to the hedgehog, another quill-bearing mammal. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha contains these lines:
[blockquote]
From a hollow tree the Hedgehog
With his sleepy eye looked at him,
Shot his shining quills like arrows. [/align][/blockquote]
Barbara "stickler" Mikkelson
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/porcupinedog.asp
A little porc-u-lore for you guys as well:
That a
porcupine can throw its quills at an attacker is a widely-believed bit of animal misinformation. Porcupines bristle up when alarmed, and a small muscle attached to each quill pulls it upright in the fur. When a porcupine chooses to fight its adversary rather than flee, it quickly jumps at its opponent, often skewering it with those bristled-out quills. This jumping movement is extremely fast and has given rise to the myth that a porcupine launches the barbs from a distance.
The porcupine has an estimated 30,000 quills on its body and is thus not incapacitated even by the loss of several hundred quills during a fight. He's still armed and dangerous.
New quills grow in to replace lost ones. There are no quills on this critter's muzzle, legs, or underside. On the face, the quills are only about a half-inch long, but on the back they may be up to five inches in length.
This same false belief has accrued to the hedgehog, another quill-bearing mammal. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha contains these lines:
[blockquote]
From a hollow tree the Hedgehog
With his sleepy eye looked at him,
Shot his shining quills like arrows. [/align][/blockquote]
Barbara "stickler" Mikkelson