There's a distressing-looking photo making the rounds in emails. You might
end up with a copy of it, as I did... you know how it goes, when people
forward it to everyone they know, and THEY forward it, and so on. Well,
one got forwarded to me yesterday.

If you look up on snopes.com, the urban legend site, whether the "pit bull
vs. porcupine" photo is real, it says "Yes".

I hasten to add that the dog survived and is recovering, but she had
literally thousands of quills in her. Some of them, as per the snopes
article, are still working their way out. I actually went to snopes.com
hoping to find out that the picture had been photoshopped, because I
couldn't believe that any creature could have that many quills in its
head, face, and front half of her body and still be standing. The poor
dog's head literally looks like a pincushion. :o(

The photo was from May 2005, so I presume that the dog is still in the
process of recovering from a whole lot of veterinary care. Poor thing.
Please send some purrs that she keeps on recovering.

The following article includes the photos I got, which are not for the
squeamish: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/porcupinedog.asp 

Inca is her name, and may she never pay attention to another porcupine
again as long as she lives.

Donna, glad that Captain and Stanley will never see a porcupine or know
what one is