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I try hard to not hate any living creature...but I fall short when it comes to porcupines. We had another run in on our recent trip. Not a bad one, but it seems clear that Alder has not learned her lesson. The quills you don't get out can be very bad as they travel around inside the dog. I keep my hemostats around my neck on a chain at all times in the North Woods.
Kenny, I'm glad you were able to take care of Miss Ruby in all of those cases.
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11-04-2019, 05:11 PM | #14 | ||||||
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Kenny,
And here I thought everybody was dropping their porcupines within a 10 mile radius of where I live and hunt My brittany cash found 2 porcupines in one day!!! Another day he pointed a skunk, I grabbed his collar and flushed his eye out, then tried to throw the rest of the bottle on his leg where he was sprayed. I took my eye off him for a minute, and got another bottle of water out to get as much spray off him as I could, and I started looking for him and he was 30 yards away on point. We had planted chukars out in a large field, and made a big swing down in a swamp before coming back to the chukar field. He found the skunk on the edge of the swamp. |
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11-04-2019, 05:47 PM | #16 | ||||||
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We ran into a big porcupine near the top of the "Scrubapple Hillside" at the mouth of his den/cave on Saturday where porcupines have called home for the 60 years I have been trudging that hillside. It is a natural cave mouth at the bottom of a 50 yard diameter, 25 foot deep cone formed by the earth eroding into the cave since the glacier receded.
My partner twenty-five yards to my right called "Porcupine!"... I called back "Shoot it and stuff it into the cave." But all he did was to pick up a rock the size of a cantaloupe and give the thing a bad nosebleed whereupon it quickly retreated into the cave. I wouldn't have been so kind but then, I'm from a different generation. .
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11-05-2019, 07:47 AM | #18 | ||||||
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I trash break my dogs on porkys and I don't get soft about it. I have never pulled a quill.
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11-05-2019, 08:14 AM | #19 | ||||||
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But you need a porcupine in a planned setting to do a good job of "trash breaking" -- hard to do in Missouri. I do zap the dogs when and if I can see the porkie before they do...but that is IF I see the porkie before they do.
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11-05-2019, 08:34 AM | #20 | ||||||
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I had a setter, Katie that could not be broken, with a trainer she got into a porky he killed it and pulled out the quills from her, put the porky up in a limb of a tree and came back with Katie two hours and she jumped in again and he lite her up didn't even stop her (number 5 plug) And he told me, you will always have a problem with her and he was right......................
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