Bloodhounds vs. Porcupine | The Incredible Dr. Pol

Back at the clinic, a concerned owner has rushed over with his two bloodhounds. The fearless pair challenged a porcupine and lost. There's way too many quills for me to handle. When I started pulling the quills out, the dogs cringed and whined and flinched. And that's where I drew the line. I'm going to let Doc sedate them. It's about a 45-minute drive from my house out here, but I've dealt with Doc Pohl and associates for over 20 years. I trust the people. They do a good job. That's why I keep coming back. Porcupines in this area are very common, I'm sorry to say. And if animals get too close, they'll get to know what it is to be hit by a porcupine. I put both the quill dogs outside. Two of them? Let's go look. Jeepers, they're full. Yeah, go ahead. Many times, if the dog is smart, he only has a few porcupine quills in his nose or in his paw or whatever. But it seems like these two dogs are so full of it, there is no way you can do it without anesthetic. Is the other one out already, too? Yeah. It's not even full moon. What the heck is going on? We had one Saturday, it was just as bad as these. You just hear a lot of, ow, ow. I know. Because we keep getting poked. And these porcupine living in the muck, they are always infected. If you poke ourselves, it hurts. You get some infection. And many times, you find them. Because there's another one that you didn't see. This one stupid dog really got into it. Sometimes you can go a couple of weeks without it, and then you get four in a day. I think last year, we had six in one day. The one dog came back, what, 13 times? This guy probably took one bite, and then she turned around and hit him with the tail. And then it's, ow, ow, ow, ow, and I'm leaving. Because it hurts. Like 1,000 needles stuck right in you. The problem with these porcupine quills, they go in, and they keep going in. They have barbs on them. I call them medieval torture things. So they come out very hard. You've got to pull them out the same way they go in. And the dog would die. Without help, they would die. They cannot eat. They cannot drink. They cannot shut their mouth. They die, period. First one, you want to take him? You got him. I got him. Good. If you have a dog that gets into porcupines, don't let him out, especially not if you have two dogs. Because two dogs make a pack. They'll go after anything. How many million did you pull out of him? All of them. Actually, he has so many tiny ones. And see how swollen that is? There's probably some still in there. But we got out what we could. Said the thing now is to watch for abscessing. Because those quills will work or abscess. And he may be back out here again to have a few more extracted. But it's all we can do.