First porcuipine today

Sniper · Post by **Sniper** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:24 pm

And he was dead, but my 5 yr old GSP took it upon himslf to roll on it, and had about 150 quills from head to tail, but they were not embedded bad, and after 10 minutes of pulling, we were back hunting.
Just my luck that the first porcky he finds is dead, and still gets full of quills.

TAK · Post by **TAK** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:35 am

Count your blessings that it was not alive. See every summer I have encounters with the walking pin throwers. Niki has a taste for the beasts and will not learn about them. Niki is 3 and been at the vets 5 times for removal! I am just waiting for one to take out an eye. The last time she had them clear down in her throat!
Count your blessings!

sdgord · Post by **sdgord** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:07 am

What is it about porkys that turn an otherwise docile dog into a bloodthirsty beast? Dogs that ignore bunnies and squirrels skunks and coons seem to want to kill pine pigs. The prime use for leather man and gerber tools out here is pulling quills. Even when it does not look like there was any damage we always go to the vet for a check up and anti biotics. Rattlesnakes and porkys are the same class of vermin.SDGORD

tfbirddog2 · Post by **tfbirddog2** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:26 pm

Your right gord they must be vermin to dogs.We have porkies every once in awhile.I saw my first one here in Nw Kansas back in August dead on the side of the road. When my wifes mother had horses they when she was a kid even the horses would get into them.I kinda think they should change it to "Curiousity got the birddog".

llewgor · Post by **llewgor** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:58 pm

I had a Golden who would go out of her way for skunks. She had one come out of a creek after her the first time. After that if she smelled one the fight was on. She rode in the back of the pick-up alot. And I never found anything that work to get rid of the smell and I tried it all. You could smell that skunk everytime she got wet. It was funny because I'd take her fishing with some friends and she'd get into the water and everyone would look around warning me that a skunk was nearby.

GrouseHunter22 · Post by **GrouseHunter22** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:03 pm

glad I don't have porkys here.

sdgord · Post by **sdgord** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:08 am

If you cant get the skunk smell out with a commercial remedy, someone gave me a recipe that does the job.
One quart of hydrogen peroxide
one cup of baking soda
two tablespoons of liquid detergent(I use dawn dish soap)
Rub this mixture in(use latex gloves) into the coat lathering up well and rinse the dog off. We have used this several times on heavy coated dogs and it works well.SDGORD

Country-Side Breeders · Post by **Country-Side Breeders** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:45 am

My brother-in-law's Lab got into one a few years back...had surgery twice to remove them. 8 months later, the quills were still forcing their way out of the skin. They went in through his nose and mouth and were coming out through his hind quarters. As long as they don't get turned around inside them, they can work their way out with the blood stream. All of his didn't get out and got turned around because now his head is dropped to the side all the time and he has constant green drainage from his nose and eye. He's fine if he's on antibiotics, but once he gets off of them, the infection comes back.

What is the purpose of a porkey anyway???

As for getting rid of the skunk smell, SDGORD is right on...it works great. I have also used a diluted bleach solution on them as well as a hunter's soap called Scent-A-Way used to remove the human odors for deer hunting.

doublea · Post by **doublea** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:45 pm

Up in my part of the world way back when, the Porky was considered a survival animal, as such it was illegal to shoot them. In other words...because they are big slow and easy to find, even without weapons one could find and dispatch a porky with relative ease. There-by providing you with enough food to keep yourself from starving to death if need be, even in winter. From what I am told they are supposed to be safe to eat raw...tastes like chicken I bet!

Luckily for me my dogs, like me, are not lovers of the tree killin Porky...my dogs do however enjoy pointing them and I have put my boot into the side of a porky a time or two while trying to flush a Pheasant from heavy cover. I really enjoy it too as it is allot of fun I might add, almost as much fun as pointed feral cats and deer...really gets the old heart to pumpin! I think my dogs do it to me for revenge, but I can't proove it!

I have found however, that I have far fewer problems with porkies if I just heel the dog out of the area once I know that it is a Porky the dog is pointing.

TAK · Post by **TAK** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 pm

doublea wrote: From what I am told they are supposed to be safe to eat raw...tastes like chicken I bet!
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I was told that they tasted like "PORK" hence the PORKY pine??????? Just not sure if I will get that hungry. As much winter storage I could survive and good 3 months! :naka:

snips · Post by **snips** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:57 am

My dog Sally (on Grants T-shirt), pointed one while we were hunting in N.Da. in Sept. I pulled her away when I saw what it was, her point did not look like a bird point, as the hair was standing on her back. I looked in the bush and could not believe how big it was (the Porky) I tried to tell a couple of people and got a real teasing. It was huge!

doublea · Post by **doublea** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:55 pm

Yeah, out at our summer camp we got one that would cross the road each evening heading down to the creek to munch on some trees. I swear he was big as a wash tub and looked like a bear as he waddled across the road!

bigcountry · Post by **bigcountry** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:30 am

Skunk remedy: Try tomato juice bath.

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