April 1st started out very interesting. I am normally up by 4:00 a.m. and this morning started out no different than any other morning. My routine starts with letting the dogs out and around 4:30 they usually want back in. When I let them in the Irish Wolfhound cross who prefers to stay outside was the first one in the house and that should have been my first clue that something was up. My son, who gets up around the same time I do, asked me what the dog had on her face and when I looked, what a surprise .... she had had an encounter with a porcupine.
As we recently adopted her, I had no idea how she was going to react when we started pulling out the quills. She is not fully grown but is about 29 inches at the shoulders and weighs over 100 pounds so she could be a real handful if she put her mind to it. I was just hoping she was not like our border collie, who is a real sweetheart but when it comes to removing porcupine quills .... watch out. Although she certainly didn't like it, she didn't give us too much trouble.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that dogs keep away from the porcupines.
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