Porcupine Quills

Getting stuck with porcupine quills can be troublesome for both the pet as well as for the owner. Though dogs are the common victims of the quills the cats can also suffer from it. Usually the dogs suffer from tangled porcupine quills as because of their highly inquisitive nature. Whether a cat or a dog the attack of the quills are quite painful and even may lead to serious infectious diseases if the quills are not removed properly. Proper medication should also be administered for healing the wounds caused by the quills. In certain extreme cases surgery can be the only option left for curing the pet from the quills.

Porcupine Quills Home Remedies

In case of few quills stuck to the skin of your pet you may get rid of them by following the steps as mentioned mellow.

• At first get thick gloves to wear before you start the process of plucking the quills from the skin of your dear pet. The thick gloves would help you to stay away from the scratches of the spine of the porcupine.
• The next step that you would be following is to calm down your pet. Generally, your cat would feel pain when stuck with quills and would rather become restless to get rid of them. Aggressive physical movements would further worsen the discomfort caused by the quills. The quills have very sharp tips and as a result of which the sharp ends easily makes way to the deeper skin tissues if the pet tries to rub those out, moves aggressively in pain or even roll around. You should try to verbally communicate with your pet in reassured voice.
• Always try to mussel the face of the pet as it would have the tendency to bite who ever comes in way. Though you pet has never bitten or showed to signs of biting but it can turn out to be very ferocious under extreme pain.
• Never use scissors to get rid of the porcupine quills as this would actually not help your pet to get rid or the trauma as the end part would still remain inside the skin. Further, you will end up in shaving much of the fur of your pet. In stead of scissors use pliers or large sized tweezers to prick up the porcupine quills.
• After removing the quills you may apply some Betadine solution on the wounds to get rid or bacterial intrusion.
• Some quills of the porcupine can be very large while the some can be very small. So, while plucking the thorns you are required to be very careful to identify the small sized ones and picking them up efficiently so that no trace or broken ends remains inside the skin of the pet.

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