Posted on 02/09/2007 1:01:25 PM PST by AZRepublican
Unbelievable pictures of what happens to a pitbull after tangling with a porcupine!
One day, a pickup passed me on the freeway. Standing in back bed was a dog that looked just like that.
you should see the other guy
Hilarious! Stoopid mutt.
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OOO-UUU-CCC-HHHH !!!! One sore dog that has learned his lesson.
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Ouch...
I have fond memories of my dad going after a porcupine with a broom.
--I'd like to see pictures of the porcupine--
The porcupine must be completely nekkid now!
But it also shows you some of the nature of the breed. Won't stop even when in great pain.
That porcupine must be totally bald by now; it must look like a possum.
The term "OUCH" comes to mind.
So.. Did the porcupine survive ??
Or did the dog achieve his goal ?? ( mm mm mmm.. porcupine..)
The doggie just got a painful lesson in good manners. A cat that's not been declawed can also give a bumptuous dog a memorable lesson in good manners.
So they're dumb AND ugly
Told!
I've no great love for pit bulls or pocupines for that matter but that poor dog is in serious trouble. Most likely they will have to put him down. I imagine there are quite a few quills in its mouth and throat. Probably blind too.
Ouchie, ouchie, ouchie. That is even painful just to look at. Poor doggie. Poor porcupine.
Pit bulls must really be extraordinarily stupid members of the canine family, because most dogs would back off before they ever accumulated anywhere near that many quills. I wonder if they had to put this animal down? The quills have barbs and cannot just be pulled out. Left in place they can work their way into internal organs and such. Poor pup, even if it is a dumb pit bull.
Not being a dog owner:
What do you do in such a case?
Said the pitbull upon exiting the vet's office, "I thought I won the fight."
Okay... now I got a slight grip...
You know... what I can see here is if a pit pull attacks you, you WILL NOT be able to hurt it into backing off. It's either kill the dog or die yourself.
Someone else posted "You should see the other guy". I'll bet the dog finally killed the porcupine but he must have had to go after it 10 or 20 times by the time he was able to get him.
Okay... now I got a slight grip...
You know... what I can see here is if a pit pull attacks you, you WILL NOT be able to hurt it into backing off. It's either kill the dog or die yourself.
Someone else posted "You should see the other guy". I'll bet the dog finally killed the porcupine but he must have had to go after it 10 or 20 times by the time he was able to get him.
see? facial piercings DO occur in nature :)
Did I get em Boss?? Did I?
LOL!
I don't think so. The porcupine must have kept unloading on the dog until it was so full of quills it couldn't attack anymore. In other words the pit bull didn't stop because of pain.
"Here. Hold muh ALPO!"
I hope the porkie is OK. I read that the quills have to be cut in half before they can be removed. Supposedly they're hollow and filled with liquid. When the liquid is released, they shrink, and can be removed with less damage to the dog.
YOW!
Amazing pictures, that had to hurt like hell.
And you think you've had a rough day. What about this dog's vet?
First off ... this isn't a pit bull but a white bull terrier. Secondly, this made the rounds at FR about a year ago ... maybe longer.
Yes, the bull terrier did survive the ordeal ... this story goes back at least a year and ran on FR at the time.
I went out to eat with the wife in downtown Minneapolis a while ago and the guy that served us looked a lot like that.
I shoot everyone of them I see around the house, cause I have had them come right in my doglot and tangle with sled dogs, same outcome, me pullin quills with needlenose from up their nose and throat.
Now this is what your supposed to do with porcupines, barbecue them. Indians just luv them but they taste pretty foul & gamey to me. Indians gut (belly has fur on) and grandma burns quills off over fire as she rubs with stick. They like them kinda rare or raw I'd call it. Indians will take porcupine over white man's pizza everytime. 
Heh. I'd submit though, that this dog *didn't* learn the lesson. The lesson was in the first few quills. And the next few, and the next few...
I've never tried porcupine, but I wouldn't be adverse to it (once the spines had been removed, thank you). I don't imagine it would be too different from groundhog/woodchuck/whistle pig, and as a PA native, I've eaten plenty of those.
I was thinking the same thing, and wondering why they were taking pictures of him instead of putting him out of his misery.?
ouch
Yup...been there, done that with my daughter's stupid Dalmation. It took 4 of us to hold him down and pull the quills out of the roof of his mouth. We used that baby antiseptic called Numzit to deaden the pain and needle-nose pliers to pull the quills out. Bad part is, the stupid dog did it again two weeks later. He also turned out to be a serial chicken/duck killer. We came home one day and he had massacred 6 chickens and 2 ducks, the feathers covered half an acre. Unfortunately, they were the neighbor's chickens and ducks so we had to give him away rather than see him shot if he did it again. Personally, I was glad to see him go.
Talk about a bad day, I had a wild cat Wednesday that climbed the wall of the clinic and got into my ceiling....been two days trying to trap the cat so far. I can hear him traveling back and forth up there.
Oh man. An angry cat loose on top of a suspended ceiling? Good luck.
ping
The cat wants down and out too.
Open the ceiling, place a 6 foot step ladder under the opening with some cat food on a napkin on top to attract the cat to the opening. Then open a window in the same room. Close the door to the room and wait about an hour or two. The cat will probably be gone when you come back.
The quills only go in a tiny bit. It might not even hurt as bad as it looks. They sedate the dog until he's conked out, then they do an hour's work with a needle-nose pliers yanking out the quills one by one.
One veterinarian posted on his website how he treated the same dumb dog three weekends in a row that looked as bad as the dog pictured here. The dog just wouldn't give up.
I even bet the porcupine survived too. That's what they're designed for.
Indeed!
The dog though, is a Bull Terrier
and this thread is a good example of how easily people incorrectly identify a dog. ;~)
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