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Outbackbob48:
Don, just a short little story, In our part of Penna. we don't have many Porky's so at this time our dogs have no experience with them. We decided to go a little further east and south an do some mountain coon hunting, Ole Sage was pretty young and ran into his first Porky and just curiously sniffed it, and got snout full of quills. It took 4 grown men to hold him down and we removed them with the leatherman, Luckly no quills inside of mouth a throat dewflaps. Now Ole Sage didn't like being held down ever since he was a pup and he sure wasn't to happy about it with us pulling quills, When we let that ungrateful 78# red dog up he did just what he was supposed to and treed all 4 of us in the back of the pickup bed, I thought for sure someone was going to get bit :o :o ;D. He finally lit out and we started working on a little gyp dog we had, she just layed there like she was drugged eyes all funny looking and dazed, course she bit on the porky so we had a lot of quills inside her mouth. Put a stick in her mouth but she didn't hardly move and just let us pull every one, Just seemed drugged. One of the last times we went in the mountains to hunt coon, Lot more coon at home and no Porky's. Porky's are just plain bad for dogs and men. Bob

Zuma:
Ed thanks for checkin in. Don't hesitate post one if you please .
 :)
Bob, for some reason I thought it was mountainous where you live.
Are you considered more Ohio Valley than the Endless Mts.
As I recall our dogs behaved very well with the quill removal although
we pulled infected stubs for weeks. I am still floored by their almost
non concern. I bet they would have went and found a track even if we
neglected to pull any quills at all. Thanks for the cool Porky tale.
At least they don't stink to bad. ;D
Zuma

Zuma:
Well so much for moss. We were dumb struck and getting drenched. For better or worse we decided to try a new plan. One of us would walk in a straight line away from the other, The one left behind would shine his light at the other. We left the dog off leash thinking maybe they had sneakily twisted us back to the water hole in search of a second coon. With yelling back and forth, the lead guy would get his beam to line up with the man behind's beam.  Of course a side step was required quite often to get the light beam past a wide close tree. We thought we were doing good as we leapfrogged each other down these beams of light streaked with faster falling rain drops. We would make about 60-80 yards between each leapfrog if we were lucky. Something I learned later on is, that what seems like a long way in the dark, is actually way, way shorter in the light of day. We had decided that if the dogs struck another trail we would continue to the truck and get our bearings.Then we would drive to where we could listen for treed dogs. At least a chance to warm up a bit. I think it took us close to an hour to circle back to the spring hole using the moss method and leashed dogs (mutts). With the flashlight method you can cut that time in half. And during that half hour is enough time for a pack of mutts to strike another trail. Well this was groundhog NIGHT for sure. We stayed just inside the woods around the meadow slumped down on a fallen tree without saying a word.
To be continued--

Outbackbob48:
Don really enjoying your adventure and waiting for the rest of story, You have a great way with words.
  I live in the chimney part of Penna. 15 miles or so from the Lake Erie, it is mostly rolling hills and quite a bit of Agriculture land, Lots of water small lakes swamps and streams, I have to travel about 40 miles east to get into the Alleghany mts. I am in the French creek valley and we drain into the Ohio valley.  I can be in either Ohio or New York in 20 minutes driving. Bob

bjrogg:
Your a good story teller Don. It is amazing how different everything is in the dark. I wonder how close you were to your truck while you were circling back to the pond.
Bjrogg

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