The owner of three dogs who came off on the wrong side of a porcupine attack has raised thousands of dollars online to help fund their vet bills.
Dennis Mazur, a youth worker in Saskatchewan, Canada, was walking his dogs - Mahalo, Nestah and Solijah - when they came across the porcupine, which punctured all three dogs with its quills.
Mahalo was the most seriously injured, requiring extensive surgery to remove the spikes from her heart and lungs.
"Quills are a tricky thing," Mazur told CBC News. "They go in and they're just sort of barbed and they migrate and travel and that's the fear now. Mahalo had quills that migrated up into her lungs and into her heart, and the fact that she's alive right now is a full miracle."
