A rescue dog has lost an eye after a fight with a porcupine left it with 1,500 quills in its face. Brutus, a two-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier from Alberta, Canada, was abandoned last month ...

Brady Oliveira found the puppy, thought to be around two or three years old, in a 'ton of pain' on the front steps of a house - with multiple punctures from the sharp quills. Brady said: 'The dog ...

I was a trained veterinary technologist in my first year of practice and it was my job to assist the vet as he removed the quills. It was hard to manoeuvre the dog without being speared.