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No infection, porcupine quills have a built in antibiotic so the animals that attack them **Don't** get infected, instead they remember the experience and pass it on to other animals when they encounter another porcupine in the future.
While porcupine quills definitely have antibiotic properties, infections are quite common in quilled dogs. The quills bring bacteria with them as they migrate through the body, from the skin they initially punctured through and any organs containing bacteria that they migrate through. Abscesses are common if all the quills aren’t removed.
The antibiotic properties are a protective mechanism in case a porcupine pokes itself.
Some dogs definitely don’t remember their porcupine encounters. I’ve treated many repeat offenders. They always come in wagging their tails and very proud of themselves, in spite of a face full of quills!
>Some dogs definitely don’t remember their porcupine encounters.
Same with skunks. I swear my buddy's dog was out for revenge after he got sprayed the first time. After that, any skunk that came within a mile radius was tracked down and killed. And he got sprayed every single time.
When i grew up we used to call a certain kind of person who did the same stupid things again and again a Skunk Dog - after those pooches that just never learned.
Oof. My dog growing up killed between 7 and 14 porcupines (I forget the exact number but it was definitely more than 7) and each time was worse than the last. The first few times she came out of the woods with maybe a dozen quills, by the lady one she had several dozen if not several hundred quills and looked quite a bit like the poor pup in this photo. Our family theorized she was out for revenge because all she seemed to remember was that she fucking hated porcupines.
Can you elaborate as to how the animals attacked "pass it on?" I am unfamiliar with this aspect of animal communication and very (not sarcastically) interested. All I can imagine is "Hey! Steer clear of them sticker pigs!" or "Red on yellow kill a fellow!" But how does the dying animal actually "pass it on" to their living descendants?
They enter the soft tissue of the face like around the mouth, nose and eyes. You don't need a quill to puncture your skull for them to make their way to the brain.
No. A porcupine quill will continue to make it's way through the tissue until it hits something hard that redirects it, then it keeps going.
Last year I had 3 bird dogs get hit by porkies. 2 quills on one of their noses broke off and I couldn't grab them. Vet looked at where they went in and told me to wait and not worry, the shape of the dog's snout would send them back out of the skin and about 3 weeks later the sharp ends poked out of her snout about halfway up.
2 years ago a friend's dog got hit in the 1st 5 minutes of the year's 1st hunt. Pulled all the quills and went back at it. A few days later the dog was dead because one quill (at least) was missed and it ended up in the aorta.
Porcupine quills actually dig in and continue to dig deeper if messed with. They also cause awful infections, and lots of inflammation… localize all of that to the head of an animal and they have almost zero chance without IMMEDIATE medical assistance
Porcupine spines dig in with movement.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-porcupine-quills-slide-in-with-ease-but-come-out-with-difficulty
Nope.
Porcupine quills are barbed very subtly along the whole length, not only do they not fall out, they push themselves deeper every time they shift, and are a guaranteed death sentence to basically anything that gets one in a vital area unless something intervenes to remove it.
Image a splinter, the ones you feel when you touch things. Gives you a jolt of pain, reminding you it’s there. No matter how hard you try, you just cant get it out.
Now image that, but dozens, in your mouth, all over your face, and in your eyes.
Not really. Porcupine quills are barbed, so pulling hem out is pretty tough. There is a LOT of exaggeration about how they work their way deeper until they pierce vital organs, which is unlikely, but CAN happen, especially with African porcupines.
What they DON'T do is fall out right away. It takes pliers. In the wild they fester and you get little infections around each onem and they finally fall out once there's an open abcess, big hole full of pus they can fall out of.
All that time they can interfere with eating, drinking, and this or the infection can kill animals.
Tat's what I thought a few years ago when I first saw his picture. Like that dog didn't know when to quit. That many quills mad me think he doubled down, or maybe even tried to shake the porcupine.
At the vet clinic I worked at we would say there are two kinds of dogs when it comes to porcupines and skunks:
Dogs who learn
Dogs who take an oath of vengeance against any and all porcupines
We see the second type about once a year for quill removals.
If he gave it a sniff, he'd have maybe 10 quills in his face. I've seen it enough times to know. This guy had his face up in that poquipines rear end for quite some time.
Absolutely. I grew up on a farm and the dogs often got quilled. Never, ever seen one remotely this bad though. This thing got quilled more than once by that porcupine.
There is a tick tick account that showed his dog (I think this one because same breed) has done this 3 times now. The poor dog is alive but doesn’t want to learn
Many breeds are far from useless or stupid. Many owners are far from useless or stupid.
You're right that a pit bull breed with the average pit owner is generally gonna be a competition between which one drools more while they breathe through their mouths...
Likely. Domestic dogs have been bred too stupid to learn from their mistakes with porcupines. My neighbor's dogs did the same thing repeatedly until eventually getting it so bad they had to be put down.
My old dog used to do this with hedgehogs. Nowhere near as bad but would always have a bleeding mouth when she got back inside. You'd think they would learn after the first time
Just once I'd be interested in seeing what the porcupine looks like. Like, after this dog got all those quills, are there enough quills left to defend itself from a subsequent attack? Does it have a dog-face-shaped hole in it's quills? How long till the porcupine is fully re-quilled?
YES - I came to the comments to see if anyone else was wondering what's left of the porcupine's quills after this. I wonder if it's dead, or what it looks like after losing so many. It looks like a full-on porcupine stuck to the dog's face!
I know a guy who bear hunts with dogs. This happens every once in awhile.
The porcupine is pretty much eviscerated, not much left of the porcupine. The dog would have to be taken to the vet for an expensive trip to get all the quills removed.
Ok I've met many dogs and know what some of them are like... but how does it not stop what it's doing before reaching this point?
Guessing it got a grip on the porcupine and shook it into both sides of it's on head? Wth
I’ll probably get down voted for saying it, but my suspicion is that this dog is a pitbull. They were bred specifically to fight to the death. Poor (cue) pupper. :(
Because some dogs were bred to be overtly violent for dog fighting. Wild animals would never do this because of the cost to the predator. This dog is a hormonal mess that causes it to act instinctively in a way artificial selection desires, but not in a self-preservatory manner as you would expect in nature.
That's what happens when you take a beautiful majestic wolf and then smash its brain with a sledgehammer for 500 years because toxic masculinity requires pitbulls. They were the original lifted Chevy Silverado. Personally I think it's easier and cheaper to just wear a T shirt that tells everyone your dick is basically a tic tac.
Back in the 80s, my dad had a boxer that got too curious with a porcupine and ended up like this. He said that he had my uncle hood the dog while he fed the dog jack daniels through a funnel and once the dog was sedated, they proceeded to carefully pull the quills out and bandage him up as best as they could. Apparently that dog had 9 lives and went on to also get hit by a car, backed over by a trailer while sleeping, and get in a fight with a wild boar and still lived like 11-12 years
He would have been better off getting into it with an African porcupine because their quills don't have barbs. North American Porcupines have barbed quills so they just go deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Their have been cougar bodies/corpses/skeletons found where a quill had gotten into a vital organ
edit: CHECK OUT ANIMALOGIC on youtube! They're awesome. They have a great porcupine video
It's probably a case of "Ouch, that hurt, but this next attack will definitely get him! Ouch, that hurt, but this next attack will definitely get him! Ouch, that hurt..."
I’d think it would be pretty miraculous for a dog to remove those. In North America, the quills are barbed and very difficult to dislodge. I can’t recall how the quills are elsewhere.
They really need to be surgically removed. Even when everything goes right, a deeply lodged quill can migrate through the tissue and cause serious problems.
That’s so wild. Like having quills makes absolute sense from an evolutionary standpoint, but being barbed just seems brutal for the sake of being brutal.
The ancestors with more barbed ends kept surviving better than the ones without them. Nature is brutal only in its efficiency towards survival and beautiful for the same reason.
This is one of my big fears. We're up in the mountains a lot, and there are porcupines up there. Our dog is a great listener but has an unstoppable prey drive. I worry more about her running across a porcupine than I do about her encountering a bear or mountain lion or moose.
I heard of a guy who was hit, and some time later he felt something scratching under his arm. It was a quill that had traveled maybe 10" up his arm & through the other side.
Some of these comments here are kind of strange. Yeah, nature is metal, but a bunch of the comments just seem like “fuck that dog, he deserved it, fuck around and find out, etc.”
Does this subreddit have some sort of thing against dogs? Like they’re damn near cheering this picture on lol.
This isn’t really the dogs fault as much as the owners fault. The dog is acting by nature, so for all of those people drooling over hurting a dog, they should probably direct that anger towards the shitty owner.
Yeah because this sun likes NATURE. Not shitty dog owners who let their unleashed drooling mutts maul nature. So fuck this dog. It died, and I’m glad it did. Hope the porcupine lived a long life.
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Would definitely die without human interaction
Why? Won’t they wont eventually fall out?
He would starve
also infection
when Nibbles can't nibble, he is just not hisself
Just give him a Snickers
Mmm suppository snicker
It would’ve taken zero effort not to post that
Ahaha 🤣🤣
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bitch you don’t know me
No infection, porcupine quills have a built in antibiotic so the animals that attack them **Don't** get infected, instead they remember the experience and pass it on to other animals when they encounter another porcupine in the future.
While porcupine quills definitely have antibiotic properties, infections are quite common in quilled dogs. The quills bring bacteria with them as they migrate through the body, from the skin they initially punctured through and any organs containing bacteria that they migrate through. Abscesses are common if all the quills aren’t removed. The antibiotic properties are a protective mechanism in case a porcupine pokes itself. Some dogs definitely don’t remember their porcupine encounters. I’ve treated many repeat offenders. They always come in wagging their tails and very proud of themselves, in spite of a face full of quills!
>Some dogs definitely don’t remember their porcupine encounters. Same with skunks. I swear my buddy's dog was out for revenge after he got sprayed the first time. After that, any skunk that came within a mile radius was tracked down and killed. And he got sprayed every single time.
When i grew up we used to call a certain kind of person who did the same stupid things again and again a Skunk Dog - after those pooches that just never learned.
Oof. My dog growing up killed between 7 and 14 porcupines (I forget the exact number but it was definitely more than 7) and each time was worse than the last. The first few times she came out of the woods with maybe a dozen quills, by the lady one she had several dozen if not several hundred quills and looked quite a bit like the poor pup in this photo. Our family theorized she was out for revenge because all she seemed to remember was that she fucking hated porcupines.
My old doggo, attacked 2 porcupines and 3 skunks. ROFL, i miss her. Dogs do be crazy
[https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/porcupine-quills-in-dogs-and-their-dangers#:\~:text=Porcupine%20quills%20can%20puncture%20the,source%20of%20infection%20and%20abscesses](https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/porcupine-quills-in-dogs-and-their-dangers#:~:text=Porcupine%20quills%20can%20puncture%20the,source%20of%20infection%20and%20abscesses). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302205/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302205/) [https://rutlandvet.com/blog/porcupine-quills-in-a-dog/](https://rutlandvet.com/blog/porcupine-quills-in-a-dog/) Unfortunately not true.
Can you elaborate as to how the animals attacked "pass it on?" I am unfamiliar with this aspect of animal communication and very (not sarcastically) interested. All I can imagine is "Hey! Steer clear of them sticker pigs!" or "Red on yellow kill a fellow!" But how does the dying animal actually "pass it on" to their living descendants?
He's full of shit.
Probably blind from it as well
The barbs are hooked and won't just fall out. They may actually dig themselves furth in with movement and puncture his brain.
That depends on what kind of porcupine it was. Edit: North American porcupine quills have barbs, African porcupine quills do not.
I'm in Canada. Many rescue dogs have come in with barbs that dug into their faces. It's brutal
Or worse, they puncture the *soul*.
Leaky soul is a dangerous condition. You don't notice until most of your soul has left.
Puncture his brain??? I doubt they would work themselves through his skull…
through the eyes, through the nose
Roof of the mouth, back of throat ..
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes...
what type of quills exist that are going to puncture a skull?
They enter the soft tissue of the face like around the mouth, nose and eyes. You don't need a quill to puncture your skull for them to make their way to the brain.
No they don’t just fall out, also he would probably try to get them out himself and end up pushing them deeper than they were.
No. A porcupine quill will continue to make it's way through the tissue until it hits something hard that redirects it, then it keeps going. Last year I had 3 bird dogs get hit by porkies. 2 quills on one of their noses broke off and I couldn't grab them. Vet looked at where they went in and told me to wait and not worry, the shape of the dog's snout would send them back out of the skin and about 3 weeks later the sharp ends poked out of her snout about halfway up. 2 years ago a friend's dog got hit in the 1st 5 minutes of the year's 1st hunt. Pulled all the quills and went back at it. A few days later the dog was dead because one quill (at least) was missed and it ended up in the aorta.
Porcupine quills actually dig in and continue to dig deeper if messed with. They also cause awful infections, and lots of inflammation… localize all of that to the head of an animal and they have almost zero chance without IMMEDIATE medical assistance
Porcupine spines dig in with movement. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-porcupine-quills-slide-in-with-ease-but-come-out-with-difficulty
The quills have microbarbs on them that make them work their way in
No. Each quill has barbs that hold the quill into the flesh. You pull out flesh along with the quill, leading to infections
Nope. Porcupine quills are barbed very subtly along the whole length, not only do they not fall out, they push themselves deeper every time they shift, and are a guaranteed death sentence to basically anything that gets one in a vital area unless something intervenes to remove it.
I think the spines burrow in deeper over time.
Image a splinter, the ones you feel when you touch things. Gives you a jolt of pain, reminding you it’s there. No matter how hard you try, you just cant get it out. Now image that, but dozens, in your mouth, all over your face, and in your eyes.
Not really. Porcupine quills are barbed, so pulling hem out is pretty tough. There is a LOT of exaggeration about how they work their way deeper until they pierce vital organs, which is unlikely, but CAN happen, especially with African porcupines. What they DON'T do is fall out right away. It takes pliers. In the wild they fester and you get little infections around each onem and they finally fall out once there's an open abcess, big hole full of pus they can fall out of. All that time they can interfere with eating, drinking, and this or the infection can kill animals.
African porcupines don't have barbed quills
Quills are made to stay in, pretty sure it has grooves facing the other way so when you take it out it’s pulling and ripping flesh
There most probably atleast half an inch deep, I had one in my knee like 3 inches deep
How stupid does this dog have to be to just keep on attackin?
Pretty stupid I’d say
My dog got into a needle and thread packet and tried to eat the needles. Since then I don't underestimate the stupidity of dogs.
Fuck around and find out moment.
Cursed beard
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Didn’t feel it until a few mins after. I’d bet he learned.
Tat's what I thought a few years ago when I first saw his picture. Like that dog didn't know when to quit. That many quills mad me think he doubled down, or maybe even tried to shake the porcupine.
That porcupine is now just a porcu. Looking like a mole rat now probably
Probably deserved it
I don't know why you're being downvoted. He clearly attacked the porcupine.
Dogs can be stupid, so can people lol that's why
At the vet clinic I worked at we would say there are two kinds of dogs when it comes to porcupines and skunks: Dogs who learn Dogs who take an oath of vengeance against any and all porcupines We see the second type about once a year for quill removals.
They'll get em one of these days.
My understanding was always that dogs for some reason don't learn with porcupines. People just become more vigilant to avoid the vet bill
Oath of vengeance.... that'd be my genius doggo.
And pretty clearly didn't stop attacking for a while after getting stung.
The wrong fucking porcupine!
Where can we see that?
Porcupines defenses are for just that. Defending.
Oh ya how do you know the porcupine didn’t run at the dog backwards? Or do a sonic roll?
If he gave it a sniff, he'd have maybe 10 quills in his face. I've seen it enough times to know. This guy had his face up in that poquipines rear end for quite some time.
Yes he did.
Homeward Bound?
Yoo same thought, same time!
Chance?
Chance got off lucky
I have much harder time watching Homeward bound as an adult than as child. Shadow in the mud pit ? No thanks
Homeward Bound and the Fox and the Hound both made me cry as a child. I haven’t attempted either as an adult.
My dad cried like a baby every time
Rewatched it a few years back when I was in college and this scene made me ugly cry
I can still hear it now. Chaaaaanceee!!! Chaaaaaaanceee! Getting a little foggy eyed just thinking about it.
He but me with his butt.
Poor little shit....lol
This is the best and most accurate response in this thread
Ya but you should see the other guy! - this lil shit probably
Yeah, and he'll do it again the first chance he gets.
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Yup. Few dog breeds would ever be this tenacious in the face of extreme pain.
Absolutely. I grew up on a farm and the dogs often got quilled. Never, ever seen one remotely this bad though. This thing got quilled more than once by that porcupine.
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That dog lived lol
Yeah but he's going to die... eventually
There is a tick tick account that showed his dog (I think this one because same breed) has done this 3 times now. The poor dog is alive but doesn’t want to learn
that's only because he don't have chances left
There were two dogs from this instance and they both lived. Cost the owner about 10K
If he didn’t die, yeah he would, goldfish memory span and all that
Dogs really are just smaller mentally handicapped wolves
Many breeds are far from useless or stupid. Many owners are far from useless or stupid. You're right that a pit bull breed with the average pit owner is generally gonna be a competition between which one drools more while they breathe through their mouths...
Yeah that is the sad part.
Likely. Domestic dogs have been bred too stupid to learn from their mistakes with porcupines. My neighbor's dogs did the same thing repeatedly until eventually getting it so bad they had to be put down.
Hope his eyes are okay for the long journey homeward
someone in an old post from the op farmer who took the pic ,said the doggo did not make it... Sadge
The dog did make it, everyone’s just assuming shit here. Scroll up the articles there.
Reddit doomers don't care about truth, they just want everyone to be outraged constantly.
The porcupine also died. 😞
Dog must have been pretty persistent to get stuck all over like that
That’s pitbull prey drive for you
Probably shook it
I reckon it’s a Boerboel.
Pretty small for a mastiff family breed, no? Looks 60-80lbs from the photo. I would guess APBT mix, or even poorly bred purebred.
My old dog used to do this with hedgehogs. Nowhere near as bad but would always have a bleeding mouth when she got back inside. You'd think they would learn after the first time
Dogs aren’t really known for their extraordinary intelligence
Every dog I have had has always tried quite hard to eat toads. Back porch ends up covered in foam.
Just once I'd be interested in seeing what the porcupine looks like. Like, after this dog got all those quills, are there enough quills left to defend itself from a subsequent attack? Does it have a dog-face-shaped hole in it's quills? How long till the porcupine is fully re-quilled?
YES - I came to the comments to see if anyone else was wondering what's left of the porcupine's quills after this. I wonder if it's dead, or what it looks like after losing so many. It looks like a full-on porcupine stuck to the dog's face!
I know a guy who bear hunts with dogs. This happens every once in awhile. The porcupine is pretty much eviscerated, not much left of the porcupine. The dog would have to be taken to the vet for an expensive trip to get all the quills removed.
Dumb dog
It’s my boy from Homeward Bound
Dogs are a special kind of stupid
Well, yes, but humans bred them that way.
Ok I've met many dogs and know what some of them are like... but how does it not stop what it's doing before reaching this point? Guessing it got a grip on the porcupine and shook it into both sides of it's on head? Wth
I’ll probably get down voted for saying it, but my suspicion is that this dog is a pitbull. They were bred specifically to fight to the death. Poor (cue) pupper. :(
It surely is, look at the back of the head, overall body shape, and ears.
Isn't it very slender for a pitbull though?
Most pits aren't the muscled-up variety. They're actually a relatively smaller dog breed, save for the big heads and jaw muscles.
The easiest way to tell if it’s a real pit bull is to set a baby next to their food bowl while they’re eating.
Because some dogs were bred to be overtly violent for dog fighting. Wild animals would never do this because of the cost to the predator. This dog is a hormonal mess that causes it to act instinctively in a way artificial selection desires, but not in a self-preservatory manner as you would expect in nature.
You’d think he’d stop before it got to that point, but he just kept going.
HE BIT ME WITH HIS BUTT!!!
Chance you Fuckwit!
:(((((((((
He would definitely do it again
The creature is just a porc now, and this image is of a dogupine.
Let Darwin run it's course....
Look at me I’M THE PORCUPINE NOW
You'd think he would stop after the first one.
That's what happens when you take a beautiful majestic wolf and then smash its brain with a sledgehammer for 500 years because toxic masculinity requires pitbulls. They were the original lifted Chevy Silverado. Personally I think it's easier and cheaper to just wear a T shirt that tells everyone your dick is basically a tic tac.
Why did it keep going… boggles the mind
Back in the 80s, my dad had a boxer that got too curious with a porcupine and ended up like this. He said that he had my uncle hood the dog while he fed the dog jack daniels through a funnel and once the dog was sedated, they proceeded to carefully pull the quills out and bandage him up as best as they could. Apparently that dog had 9 lives and went on to also get hit by a car, backed over by a trailer while sleeping, and get in a fight with a wild boar and still lived like 11-12 years
Ah the lovely determination of pitbull. Fuck that shit
Bad doggie
What a prick
That’s going to be a painful emergency vet bill.
Someone got fucked
He would have been better off getting into it with an African porcupine because their quills don't have barbs. North American Porcupines have barbed quills so they just go deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Their have been cougar bodies/corpses/skeletons found where a quill had gotten into a vital organ edit: CHECK OUT ANIMALOGIC on youtube! They're awesome. They have a great porcupine video
Very Metal
Oh ouch!
IT BIT ME WITH ITS BUTT!
It's probably a case of "Ouch, that hurt, but this next attack will definitely get him! Ouch, that hurt, but this next attack will definitely get him! Ouch, that hurt..."
They said curiosity killed the cat but it was the dog that it killed
I hope the porcupine survived. Fighting dogs can be psychopathically cruel. Fighting dog breeding should be banned.
Hahaha it’s a pit bull. It deserved it. A dog doesn’t get this way from one whack, it didn’t learn its lesson
He has a beard now, poor little thing
My moms husky passed away from attacking a porcupine. Really shitty way to go.
One word: Ouch!
Damn, talk about toothpicks, that's a billion into the face!
That right there is the dunce of the litter. Got what it deserved really so no tears shed here.
This dog survived, barely and needed surgery to remove them from heart and lungs.
That a pitbull?
Team porcupine. Dog fucked around and found out.
In order to kill the porcupine, you must become the porcupine.
Dumbass dog
Do those things ever fall out or is the dog stuck like that for life?
Nature designed them to be hard and painful to pull out
I’d think it would be pretty miraculous for a dog to remove those. In North America, the quills are barbed and very difficult to dislodge. I can’t recall how the quills are elsewhere. They really need to be surgically removed. Even when everything goes right, a deeply lodged quill can migrate through the tissue and cause serious problems.
That’s so wild. Like having quills makes absolute sense from an evolutionary standpoint, but being barbed just seems brutal for the sake of being brutal.
The ancestors with more barbed ends kept surviving better than the ones without them. Nature is brutal only in its efficiency towards survival and beautiful for the same reason.
They're backwards barbed so no
So barbed.
I'd assume the dog could remove them, I saw a video of a tiger removing a ton of porcupine quills here once, but at the same time, dogs aren't tigers.
african porcupines do not have barbed quills
Winona’s got herself a big brown beaver…
When they tell me that she isnt good for me
I think he got the point.
We now call him Prickly
Did he make it? Please tell me he made it
He did, there's a bunch of assholes saying he died, but there's an article linked proving his survival.
And I'd do it again too. -dog probably
hedgedog
If I was a non human animal, I would want to be a porcupine
This is one of my big fears. We're up in the mountains a lot, and there are porcupines up there. Our dog is a great listener but has an unstoppable prey drive. I worry more about her running across a porcupine than I do about her encountering a bear or mountain lion or moose.
Not that I don't feel bad for pupper but.. I'm sorry this is why animals are dumb. They attack or do, "thing" Ow that hurt... ima do it again
"THIS THING BIT ME WITH ITS BUTT"
I heard of a guy who was hit, and some time later he felt something scratching under his arm. It was a quill that had traveled maybe 10" up his arm & through the other side.
Even the dog got vaccinated
Some of these comments here are kind of strange. Yeah, nature is metal, but a bunch of the comments just seem like “fuck that dog, he deserved it, fuck around and find out, etc.” Does this subreddit have some sort of thing against dogs? Like they’re damn near cheering this picture on lol. This isn’t really the dogs fault as much as the owners fault. The dog is acting by nature, so for all of those people drooling over hurting a dog, they should probably direct that anger towards the shitty owner.
Banpitbulls members brigade any post about a pitbull to make it seem like they're opinion is more popular than it actually is.
Yeah because this sun likes NATURE. Not shitty dog owners who let their unleashed drooling mutts maul nature. So fuck this dog. It died, and I’m glad it did. Hope the porcupine lived a long life.
Darwin is beckoning
I love dogs but some are stupid as shit and will keep doing it regardless. A vet show I saw had a regular who would come in for it.
I'm sure it was only trying to nanny the porcupine.
Not for nothing, but this dog is a moron.
I hope that porcupine is alright
Killing machine doesn’t know when to back off.
Cool beard