A Painful Memory
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51 commentsFrom an old friend:
Five years ago, on my second date with Anne, her dog Hobie (now 12) attacked a porcupine at our cottage. We had had 1.5 bottles of wine and it was 1 am on a Sunday so I said ‘we can sit on him and pull them out’. Then he opened his mouth and thought, “um no”.
I called the emergency vet in Clintonville and we drove in – Hobie let me carry him inside, fully alert. After anesthesia it took doc 1.5 hours to get all the quills out. He said he’d seen worse, with pit bulls, but not many. Happy anniversary Hobie~
(he was fine the next morning, and has trusted me ever since)
OMD, I hope never to have to see that with any of my dogs. That must be so very painful.
glad hes ok now xxx
Oh Jesus owwww.
Holy crap!!!! Pick your battles!!!! I’m hoping a lesson was learned lol
poor baby
i bet he still runs after them.
Yup, that’s a bad one, but I’ve seen worse in my years as a vet tech. Ouch!
Oh my god….
Poor baby!
Ouch. I didn’t think there was anything worse than when two of our dogs got skunked, one right in the mouth and nose so for months after when the sun would warm the top of his head you could still smell skunk. But this trumps that for sure. Ouch again!
Billings Animal Rescue Kare rescued a dog (Grace) that had been attacked my a porcupine and not treated
Months later, the quills continue to come out. She was actually just adopted 
Oh geez. My dog tried to wiggle through barbed wire and got one of those diamond shaped razor sharp thingies stuck in his ear, next to his head, leaving no room for movement. It took me maybe five minutes, which seemed like an hour, to slowly and carefully get him free. It was in high weeds and he was facing away from me, I couldn’t see anything. He was left with a small hole in his ear, antibiotics for ten days, and just me filled with guilt for letting him get anywhere near there.
O_o omg the poor baby
I dont know if i should laugh or not…poor baby. Hahahaha.
Glad he was ultimately ok.
OUCH..Poor baby
glady hes fine i would av been in tears
Yowzers!!!! I would’ve risked the DUI for my dogs too!!!! Poor thing!!!
My sister’s dog back when he was under a year old and we were living out in the country on 10 acres (over 10 yrs ago), wouldn’t learn to leave the porcupines alone. He went after them at least 3 times and each time the quills got worse. Our parent’s couldn’t afford to take the dog to the vet, so we opted to remove the quills ourselves. Not an easy job, but it was never as bad as the picture above.
I think that’s definitely a painful memory for both you,Anne and Hobie – and sometimes helping an animal in need makes a friend for life – hard way to get that though for Hobie
Yikes! Poor fella!
I also hope the porcupine was OK too…I really hate when my girl goes after cats…When will the cats learn Pittbull that hates cats lives here
The only thing that stopped it was tethering the dog, and eventually moving into town. Thankfully my dog got it once and learned to stay away, even though she would still bark at them at a distance. removed her quills ourselves too.
Oucheewaawaa!
Poor Hobie.
OMG
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Poor boy! My lab was attacked by a skunk once and it gave him a couple good laserations across the face before he killed it.
Oh that’s so got to hurt…he’s lucky none of them pierced his eye….bless him. Glad Hobie got over that prickly experience……
OWEEEEE!!!!
Holy shit!
OUCH!!! Poor boy!!
Wow.
What an ouch of an injury.
Poor Hobie!
Oh poor baby !!
Poor Hobie, good he’s okay now and advoiding porcupines.
ouchie that hurts
Ouch! Glad he’s ok!
Sometimes I wonder …..should I have stayed in Colorado ? Then I think no…. I love England and we don’t have anything that do this ; ) lucky dog to have such loving owners
Ps that was one heck of a first date ….
oh my god! I’m in pain looking at that! so glad he’s ok!
omg!
Poor baby!
Poor Hobie <3<3<3
ouch:(
Been there…one German Shepherd…over two-hundred quills…she attacked porcupine so it would leave her friend alone (he only had six and he thought he was dying : )
que dó….
Thank god we dont have them in the UK
God, I’m so glad he was OK! He was so, so lucky that they they missed his eyes.
Wow! I didn’t know those little creatures could do so much damage.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the porcupine won!