The Rekounas Blog » Dog http://www.rekounas.org/blog A blog about the fun and interesting things in my life Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Removing porcupine quills from my dogs nose http://www.rekounas.org/blog/2008/06/16/removing-porcupine-quills-from-my-dogs-nose/ http://www.rekounas.org/blog/2008/06/16/removing-porcupine-quills-from-my-dogs-nose/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:18:32 +0000 rekounas http://www.rekounas.org/blog/?p=1133 Continue reading →]]> Michelle and I came home last night from my parents house and we let the dog out to use the bathroom. I went straight to bed and Michelle followed shortly after. What we forgot to do was let the dog in. Opps! Well, living in the country, we have bears, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, turkey vultures, and eagles just to name a few of the scavengers and predators around here. Michelle woke up at 5:30 for work and pointed out that we forgot Otis outside. I opened the door expecting him to be laying on the front doorstep curled up sleeping but he wasn’t around. I called “Oooootttttiiiiisssss. Whistled. Come here boy.” Usually, I only need to do this once and I see him bolting through the trees. Today was no different except when he showed up on the front doorstep, he had 3 porcupine quills stuck to his nose. OUCH! He isn’t a vicious dog and that is a good thing because he was probably only trying to sniff the porcupines ass when he got too close and pricked himself with a few quills. Had he attacked the porcupine, it would have probably been a lot messier.

Michelle told me I needed to cut the ends of the quills and then using my plyers I pulled each one out. He sat still for the first one, but then he realized this would hurt a little and he didn’t sit as still for the 2nd and 3rd.

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