Run in With a Porcupine

Sometime yesterday afternoon Fender and Gibson came face to face with a porcupine!!! Armin is the one who noticed when he walked up to Fender, who was laying down sheepishly by our car! He called to me and said there was "someping" on Fender's nose!!! As I came closer I instantly knew what they had found!!  We had to go pick Emry up from volleyball practice so we couldn't do anything for the silly dogs until we got back.

I called Jared, who was still travelling home from his site inspection North of Brooks! He said we could try and pull them when he got home.  I decided to also call the vet to see what they thought we should do. With the amount of quills in Fender's snout he encouraged us to bring them in. So as soon as Jared got home we loaded up the two silly puppies into the van and as a family we drove to Nanton!! Jared did try to pull one of Gibson's and it broke off, so we were more than willing to take them to the vet!!!

Once at the vet he did a quick look over and then started with Gibson, who only had three quills, all in his nose!! He gave him a miniscule amount of sedative, right into the vein and waited for him to get drowsy.  He sure didn't take long!! His back end started to shake and ever so gingerly he went down!! Jared was right by the vets side helping in any way he could.  He loves that kind of stuff!!! The kids too were right in there watching and asking questions!!!

After Gibson was finished the vet and Jared got Fender sedated and minutes later they were pulling the 30 plus quills from Fenders face!! He had one quill pierce right through his nose.  When all the pulling was done and the reversal sedation was given to help wake the puppies up the vet went over to the computer to fill in his paperwork.  Calum pulled up a stool and sat beside him as he typed. The vet was so good and answered all of Calum's questions, even if they at times were silly questions!!  Once the puppies were up and moving and our $390 bill paid we took them home with hopes that they had learned their lesson!!!!

It was neat taking the kids and having them see firsthand the way a vet clinic works...Emry did say she wanted to be a vet after watching what they get to do, of course only if she didn't have to do any surgeries!!!!