A rescue dog has lost an eye after a fight with a porcupine left it with 1,500 quills in its face. Brutus, a two-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier from Alberta, Canada, was abandoned last month ...

The Winnipeg Humane Society described him as an 'absolute joy'. In December 2022, a dog owner was left with a $19,500 vet bill after their pitbull died from a porcupine quill attack.

Porcupines are easily identified by their spiky fur coat that is made up of long guard hairs & over 300,000 sharp, hollow ...

The porcupine quills coupled with the drug's side effects ultimately caused the sequence of events that led to my trauma and guarded fear of large dogs. I focused daily on lessening the anxiety.

"We answered a lot of not-so-subtle questions about porcupine quills - they're soft at birth, before quickly hardening, so Hettie's labour was not as painful as some watching mothers were imagining." ...