Comments on: Porcupine Quills and Cactus Spines

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:19:37 +0000

Porcupine quills will work themselves out in the direction of their point. That means, if you miss it soon after the incident, it will find its way through the leg, nose, mouth, etc. One has to monitor for the exit by feeling for a tiny point across from where it made entry… (Out through the top of the nose in my uber curious porcupine chomping Dalmatian) …then tweezers or needle nose pliers work well. Seemed a relief but required such sweet patience over a couple if months, to get them all (and that was after a vet, with Dal under anesthesia, removed as many as he could find…). What a day 🙁

By: w

Sun, 18 May 2014 09:58:39 +0000

By: Gee and Haw

Gee and Haw — Sun, 18 May 2014 06:05:17 +0000

I hope I can find this article, if one of my horses, finds a porcupine.

By: Galadriel

Galadriel — Fri, 16 May 2014 23:56:09 +0000

Good to know.

By: PKL

PKL — Fri, 16 May 2014 06:11:36 +0000

My filly got in contact with a porky, her whole face was swollen, quilts way inside her mouth. I think she thought the porky was something to eat. The vet came and took them out, but the ones in her mouth were so imbedded, that he cut the tips off, to release the pressure, then they worked their way out, by themselves. In a few days, she was back to her own “naughty” girl ways.