Story ONE Spike.

Spike heard the shuffling through the grass and decided ‘let’s go have a look’ immediately Spike is confronted by his first ever Porcupine who was startled by the intrusion so old Porky says to himself I will just walk away. Suddenly Spike tries to stop Porky and jumps on him and Porky ejects and directs at least 80 of his Porky Spikes into Spike’s body! Spike pulls himself away from Porky yelping and trying hard to take out the spiky needles of pain, alas he limps home arriving so late the house was locked up and everyone had gone to bed. He whines and whimpers and hardly gets any sleep as the poison from the spikes is working its way through his system and on a count of one to ten his pain is a straight ten! Now it gets sadder, get the tissues out mother!

The back door opens after a seriously painful night for Spike and his owner says ‘What have you been up to’ the dog who doesn’t talk but the dumb owner can see for herself that Spike is in severe pain so she tries to pull one of the spines out of Spike’s leg and Spike gives it his best shot by yelping and growling and telling his owner ‘leave me alone’ The owner says ‘there is nothing I can do today but I will take you to the vets tomorrow afternoon’

Overnight the searing pain was so intense Spike slipped in and out of a coma as he could not withstand the pain. Morning came and eventually Spike was taken to the vets who asked ‘When did this happen’ as he took pictures of the severely distressed animal. “I don’t know, he came home yesterday after being away for a few days in that condition yesterday” She then requested “Put the dog down, I don’t want it anymore”

The vet is now faced with an immediate problem what to do? What would you do? Bottom line is that he and his team worked tirelessly removing all the porcupine needles from Spike and he lived happily ever after.

Amen