Porky-pines!

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They only seem to come out when it's a cold snap, made their first appearance in our yard the other night.

One of the dogs got a rude awakening, first time for her. 8 quills in her snoot and one in her mouth.
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Two behind the house today, wife phoned me while I was traveling home.

Neighbor boys came over and dealt with them for me as I was 3 hrs away.

Should I serve them to unwanted family at Christmas?
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I wasn't really serious about cooking one haha.

I do have unwanted guests for the holidays though.

Hard enough to keep pines alive around here without those bastards eating them, plus dogs are too stupid to stay clear of them.
 
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Cripes, been a whilst since a porky-pine thread.
Huh Jay?

We were taking a building down up at Mica Dam mid 80’s.
One of the workers Doberman got quilled and took it upon itself to seek a fatal revenge on the pin cushion.
He rolled it over and proceeded to unquill this beast.

Ohhh wutt a mess.
 
We hosted an annual ‘wild game dinner’ many times with wild boar, wabbits, squirrels etc. on the menu…and one year a roasted porky pincushion showed up on the table!! 12 guests devoured it so quickly that I never even got a taste. Squirrel was also a big hit at these dinners. I suspect that the wine, beer and booze served somehow enhanced the appetite of my guests. lol. Bon appétit.
 
DGY said:
Porcupines are good eating!!! Makes for an awesome stew!!
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So it is said. I was brought up to believe that they should not be killed by a casual hunter because they're the one animal that even an unarmed lost person can easily kill and cook up for food. I don't know about that, there haven't been all that many I've come across that weren't way up in a tree, but they certainly are a menace to dumbass dogs and anything that has a salty flavour, however faint, from having been handled by human hands- axe handles, fuel bottles, boots, doorways, what have you. They will gnaw anything like that into slivers.

BTW, part of the survival lore I was told is that you can kill one with a punch on the nose. Good luck with that.
 
Like the spelling in your title. My dad spelled it the same. Don't see them around much in the woods, a few always dead on highway in summer in NB. Saw 4 fishers this fall while driving woods roads looking for ditch parrots maybe why. On another note my grandfather said porcupine liver was very good.
 
I ate several as a young fella and they were actually very good on the table. Don’t see many in my area of northwestern Ontario these days. I did find a quill in the chin of a fisher I skinned last week. Guess he knew where to find them.
 
kamlooky said:
Cripes, been a whilst since a porky-pine thread.
Huh Jay?

We were taking a building down up at Mica Dam mid 80’s.
One of the workers Doberman got quilled and took it upon itself to seek a fatal revenge on the pin cushion.
He rolled it over and proceeded to unquill this beast.

Ohhh wutt a mess.
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Those porcupines sure were hard on ol'Nos... He just hated them & figured 'the next time' he would get the better of them... And he did to be honest, because he did kill them...

This picture cost me $1277 for 4.5 hours of quill pulling at the vets AND I pulled quills for months afterwards!

Man Nos was a tough dog!

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My Grandma says they used to have a bounty in NB they would get 25 cents for every boiled skull probably alot of pocket money for a kid in the 40s.
 
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