Unfortunately, my dog, MF Jones, ran into his first porcupine this morning. I had already known what my dog would do if he ran into one. As expected he ran up and tried to grab the quilled beast. I was yelling at the top of my lungs for him to stop. I actually thought I had successfully called him off the thing. When he came trotting back, I saw that I was wrong. However, I think my yelling quelled his attack some as he only had 10 quills in his face. My neighbor told me if I ever had to pull quills from my dog that I should cut the ends off of the quills before pulling them out with a pliers. The reason was that the quills are hollow and that if you squeeze them with the pliers they could expand in the dogs face making them harder to get out. I have no idea if this is true or not, but I cut them with a scissors first then pulled them out. The came out real easy. MF Jones didn't struggle much either. I hope he learned his lesson but he'll probably do it again.
He doesn't look to happy. I was watching a movie today and there was a guy named mf jones. Did you name him after the guy in the movie or just a coincidence?
He's so lucky to have only gotten 10. I've seen 'em covered in so many quills that the 'ole 'pork musta' looked bald as it saundered back into the woods.
