Oh my Og. I was almost in tears (real ones, not from laughter) looking at that picture. All I could imagine was one of my dogs doing that.
I wanted to throw up from looking at that picture-that’s hideous! Poor Inca!
I didn’t want to look, but I just had to look and by the time the page loaded I knew the dog was okay. So maybe because the image was rather small and I have absolutely no experience with the result of a fight with a porcupine, but for just a split second it was amusing in it’s cartoonishness. More fascination really, it just can’t be real; that many quills had to be glued on, is what I was thinking. Then I got a good look and it wasn’t funny at all. How did that poor baby not lose her sight?
Note to self-- real porcupines are to be avoided at all costs. Life is not a Looney Tunes production. Ouch ouch ouch
That, my friends, is why porcupines evolved quills…and why intelligent predators leave them the fuck alone. I neither think it’s funny nor disturbing, disgusting, or pitiful. That is a severely dumbassed dog who probably would have died in horrific, protracted pain in the wild…thus sparing us all any (further?) dumbassed doggie offspring.
Tuckerfan, I’m surprised at you for finding that funny. That really seems out of character for you. Okay 'nuff said. I think other people have given you enough grief.
As far as that hunter kicking the boar, well as far as I know very few animals will attack humans even when they are being attacked* by* humans. Now if that hunter had done that to a mountain lion, a polar bear, or a tiger I’d say “Jesus Christ that is one brave hombre there!!!” I believe the Polar Bear and the tiger actually go out of their way to hunt humans.
No, I am not some Yankee liberal that has an anti-hunting attitude. However, let’s look at that from the boar’s perspective. Some human was invading his domain and he was looking to see what was going on, maybe even a little bit steamed that another hunter was using his turf.
Perhaps if the hunter can use the boar’s hunting ground, maybe the boar can “return the favor” by taking a shit in that guy’s living room. 
That was also a very small boar. They can and frequently do run up to 400-500 pounds.
F’rinstance, I’d like to see him kick this sumbitch in the ass.
I think the humor in the situation derives from the idea of anything being dumb enough to not only attack a porcupine, but to persist in attacking one. That said, I do feel sorry for the poor dumb dog. Hopefully, the dog won’t make that mistake again.
Ogre
Holy shit - that is one serious, industrial-strength boar !!!
As you said, let’s see the hunter kick that in the ass!
That poor dog, I am so glad that she is going to be alright.
She is not, in all probability, a dumb dog. She is a terrier and she obviously has a very high prey drive. She was doing what bull terriers have been bred to do, and you can’t fault her for that. When terriers were being bred originally, (as well as all other breeds) there was a purpose behind the selection of traits sought and bred for. Terriers kill vermin. Think of how large, mean, and nasty rats are. Now breed me a dog which will attack and hang on for the kill, no matter what kind of defensive biting and scratching the rat is doing. Now breed me a bigger dog for larger vermin. Porcupines are vegetarians. They are able to destroy crops and devestate orchards. Inca was doing her job. What a good girl! Fortunately, we live in a time when she is not subjected to this on a regular basis, we have well trained veterinarians and good medications, and her owner, judging from the post I read, is a concerned dog owner who is nursing Inca back to health from this very unfortunate encounter. Hopefully Inca has learned to leave porcupines alone.
jmo
Bull Terriers have very small squinty eyes. I suspect that’s the main reason her vision was spared. I cringe to think what would happen to my big-eyed Cocker Spaniel. But then he’s more of the “pee and run” type, than the “attack and kill” type.
Exactly. I used to have a lab who’d chew up any aluminum drink can he could find if I didn’t get away from him. He’d chew the things until he cut his tongue and he’d bleed like a stuck pig. Didn’t bother him a bit that he’d cut himself, he’d always have this self-satisfied grin on his face afterwards. Now, as anyone who’s owned one can tell you, labs aren’t stupid, in fact, if they had opposable thumbs, they’d be hell on four legs, so my dog wasn’t an idiot, he enjoyed it for some reason. I wouldn’t be surprised if Inca was greatly pleased with herself. Of course, if it later turns out that her owner had somehow provoked her into attacking the porcupine, then he ought to be flayed alive.
Tucker!!! Not Funny At All!! Anyone Who Can Find That Funny Is A Seriously Disturbed Dumfuck!!!
Yes! That Poor Innocent Baby Having A Porcupine Back Into It’s Face Like That! Oh The Humanity!
Lawyer: “So, Mr. Porcupine. Are you testifying that you accidentally backed into Inca’s face…27 times?”
Porky: “I’m clumsy! It’s a curse!”
An animal repeatedly attacking a porcupine like that is the equivalent of a human deciding to punish their broken lawnmower by kicking it while wearing sandals. It’s just funny, unless it’s you or someone you care about.
If we’re not allowed to laugh at people and/or animals doing dumb things, how are we supposed to get our laughs in this moron-filled world?
Although I am glad no-one got a picture of the incident where one of my gerbils decided to bite me on the nose and hang on like a little lively mustache while I ran around screaming for my momma. It would be just too humiliating if anyone knew about that.
I remember reading once that wild boars were one of the most feared animals in the medieval European forest. A boar spear has a crosspiece some distance back from the tip, to keep the boar you’ve just stuck from coming right up the spear and getting you.
If you want to insult another poster, globalhawk2002, you’ll need to take it out of MPSIMS and put it in the the Pit. No insults here. Please don’t do it again.
Now there’s some might fancy rationalizing there good buddy. Not only is it funny, why, she was doing it for our entertainment! We do not share a sense of humor and for that, I am glad.
Not funny and not even dumb - it was instinct that drove that that dog to get a quilled up.
What’s dumb is this: a certain white doggy begs at the back door to be let out. You open the door. He runs into his crate.