ORIGINAL: sproulman
those porcupine quills are nasty.
i found a way to get them out without going to vet.
have someone put a towel over your dogs eyes then take a RAWHIDE SHOELACE and tie his mouth shut.
most of quills are usually on outside ,not on tongue.
bad ones are deep inside their nose.
PGC released FIS
HERS which kill the porcupines.
I hate porcupines not only because i trouble spelling the name but.
Going Up North to the Dakotas and Canada I have run into them more than i want to remember.
It is a crazy thing, It seems that when a dog gets a hold of one it starts to hunt them after that. Over the years I have spent many a day pulling the quills out with a pair of pliers orforecepts (sp) I have even had dogs come home and a quill will apear out of nowhere a couple months after.
Normally when they get on one they come back or you find them looking like santa clause with pom poms on their front feet. I found allot of quills in their moutn all the way down in their throat. It is a challenge and requires some ace to get the dog relaxed enough to work on them in some cases. I have also had to take them to the vet for x-rays to get the ones broken off you can't see. I don't know why they were put on the earth but, they are easy to kill. I have hit many of them in the head with a snap hook on the rien and they die easily.