Although armed with some 30,000 quills, porcupines move slowly and will typically try to waddle away from perceived attackers ...

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 ...

"The racoon had, like, a wash cloth on its rump, but even more interestingly, its muzzle and arms were filled with porcupine quills." The racoon was found Sunday afternoon on Smith Lane ...

The tiny animals are born with soft quills that harden within hours ... But then, a miracle happened. Prickle the porcupine had a rough start in life. On top of being orphaned as an infant ...

come here porcupine!" Then, not one but two crested porcupine emerged. The most striking thing wasn't the long black and white quills on their lumbering bodies - which at 30kg each were bigger ...

The dog got herself into a prickly situation. A man found her with 50 porcupine quills stuck in her face. "This sweet girl emerged from the woods, clearly in distress," the SPCA said on social media.