Porcupine 1 - Dog 0

[Beirut]

Stupid hound, our Weinareimer, about 110 pounds took a full load of porcupine buckshot in the chest. About 150 quills.

Forget the vet. Gave him a few prescription Tylenols with codeine, got him mellow, then got medieval on his ass with two pairs of pliers. One to hold the skin down around the quill, the other to pull it out. Damn dog stiull fought back. Had to really put the brakes on him while my sweetie did the pliers trick. Took half an hour to get them out. The dog was pissed off to say the least.

Except right now, he's under the table, stoned out on codeine, wondering if it's worth another porcupine for that sweet codeine buzz.

Dogs. You just gotta love 'em.

[RisingSun]

Ignorance is bliss, no?

What I wouldn't give to live a week as a dog.

[jkaney55]

When it comes to my dog its:
Porcupine- 3
Dog- 1

Three time my big brute of a dog got
thwacked in the face. He's had quills in his
face, mouth, and ears But one day... He
evened the score...3 to BIG ONE.

Then we had porcupine stew (... just kidding)

[Beirut]

Yeah Go dog. Glad he took one down.

The dumb hound at our house (her dog) got his first shot tonight. Hope he learns. As if...

My dog (Beirut. Deceased, but still my dog)) got hit around eight times. I think I went to the vet twice. After that, baked him on codeine and did the pliers thing. That dog simply did not learn. But what a dog

Hee-hee. The Weimareiner is out cold under the table. Poor dumb dog. At least he's not in pain.

[Kraellin]

skunks. dogs and skunks. forget the pliers and give me the codeine. as a teenager my neighbor friend and i both had dogs and both roamed the outdoors with our dogs. on one particular afternoon, we were exploring an abandoned house and suddenly heard barking from my neighbor's german shepherd. as we wandered over to where the dog was, it suddenly let out a yelp and backed away from where it had had its attention. my dog, a smaller lab mix, was also nearby and quite curious about the shepherd's find. so, he too goes in to investigate. that lasts about 2 seconds and he yelps and backs away also.

meanwhile a rather noticable and very unpleasant smell is starting to permeate the area. both my friend and i are now pretty much holding our noses and trying to reach our respective dogs. at the same time, we really dont want much to do with them at this point. and just to cap it all off, this medium sized skunk suddenly comes out of his hiding place to gloat and mock all of us and to pretty much tell the dogs 'you want some more of this?', as he wags his tail rather high in the air.

the poor dogs are now quite dismayed and assure the skunk that no, they dont want any more.

now, my friend and i were pretty normal teenage boys, so we decide that, indeed, we want some more. so, finding sticks and stones nearby, we begin to dish it out to this rather arrogant skunk, feeling quite superior in our young male sort of way. the skunk takes a few stones and decides the dogs are no longer a threat, and being a good skunk, turns his back on us. ha now we've got him he's going to run away

lol. up goes the tail and it seems he's got a bit of his mix left in the bag....

as we made our way home, stinking to the heavens of skunk, our dogs stinking to the heavens of skunk, and our pride just about shot in the other direction, and the dogs stopping ever few feet to roll around on the ground, we decided that skunk hunting was best accomplished with either MUCH longer sticks, much bigger stones, or that it maybe was better to just leave skunks alone :)

K.

[dessa14]

Dingo-1
Echidna-1
they killed eachother
the dingo swallowed the echidna and it got stuck in its neck.
thanks, dessa

[Beirut]

Kreallin,

Yeesh.

The dog is still under the table looking tired, but kind of fullfilled.

[Voigtkampf]

Krae; this was tough. Well, at least the dogs could get away with the satisfaction that their masters weren't off any better then they were.

Beirut; what if he likes the codeine and figures out the logical connection?

[Goofball]

Hey, dessa, what's an echidna

[octavian]

i believe that is what he was talking about

[RisingSun]

Dessa- That is hilarious.

Comic irony, I like to call it.

[BDC]

Our good old hedgehogs could take it.

[octavian]

Quote[/b] (BDC @ June 10 2004,14:41)]Our good old hedgehogs could take it.

porkypine takes all

[BDC]

No, our hedgehog hides in the shadows, uses his sneak attack to reduce piney to 50% hp, then curls into a ball as piney attacks (invulnerability for 30 seconds) before finishing off piney after he has wasted all his quills.

[dessa14]

echidna is like a hedgehog, a round fat thing with big spikes that cover its entire body. one of the two egglaying mammals
thanks, dessa

[barocca]

HedgeHog - 5
Sparrows - nil

when i lived in the UK we had a HedgeHog for a while, it lived in the shed - shed, yeah right, more like a concrete bomb shelter.
It took us some time to realise we actually had a HedgeHog,
you see my cat would catch sparrows - never kill them, simply liked catching them and bringing them home.
Now a wild bird caught in such a manner is usually one step away from a coronary, so we used to put them in the shed (nice and dark and warm) with some seed and bread scaps soaked in milk, then open the door the next morning and let them go.

then one day we open the door to find a pile of feathers
- and (surprise surprise) no sparrow...
we figured someone must have locked one of the cats in with the bird.
after this happened a couple of times we moved everything out of the shed into a smaller one...everything except this really big old tatty roll of carpet that was too heavy for 2 ten year old's to carry - that way we figured no hiding places for sneaky cats.

coupla days later another sparrow, and in the morning another pile of feathers.
A thorough check of the shed and we could find no way for a cat to get in, so since we could not carry the carpet we unrolled it, and lo and behold one Hedeghog - now how a HedgeHog (which are not particularly brave or swift), could have snuck past us into the shed is a mystery - it was only ever unlocked when something needed to be got out.

From then on the birds went into the small shed and the big one was left unlocked,
we'd sneak things like suasages down there and shove them into the carpet roll where the HedgeHog lived, and for some months it stayed there, we could pat it - if you call rubbing a spiny animal while it is curled into a ball in terror patting,
but come summer and it moved on...

B.

[RisingSun]

Didn't think a hedgehog was a particularly vicious enough animal to eat a sparrow, nor catch one...