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 ...

"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." ...

With one look at the collection of quills on their backs, you’d think the porcupine and the hedgehog are related. However, ...