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My TN Walker Hound loves playing with
porcupines. However they do not like her. We have taken her and
another of our dogs several times to the vet to have them removed from their
mouths. Every now and then we do find one on her chest area. we
don't find them at first, but a few days later they seem to work their way to
the surface and pop out. Then we pull them out, once she had 3"
of quill inside of her.
I don't know about their spiraling inwards, but I
have heard this. Call your vet.
Heidi in NY
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:47
AM
Subject: [pyrnet] Porcupine advice
please
Hi Everyone,
My one year old male Pyr just
had his first (and dare I hope, last) close encounter of the painful kind with
a porcupine.
I pulled out all the quills that I could see (mouth,
chest, foot) and apart from being sore he seems fine. However I can feel
a number of unreachable quills embedded under the skin in his chest
area.
I've heard two schools of thought from various sources.
First: leave the quills alone and they will eventually work themselves
out. Second: Leave the quills alone and they will burrow themselves
deeper into his body, eventually reaching his heart/brain/lungs and could kill
him.
Being a foreigner (where I come from we only have hedgehogs) I'm
not very au-fait with porcupines. Any one else have experiences of this
happening and any advice to offer?
Thanks,
Mary.
Mary Delmage
RR#3
Shelburne ON
L0N 1S7 Canada
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