The Dog has to be anesthetized, and the quills pulled while he is knocked out, otherwise it is animal cruelty, not to mention you can get badly bitten.
That little bit of PC taken care of, there are as many folk remedies as there are for skunk sprayings. Most of them involve some method of softening the quills or collapsing them so that they pull more easily.
I remember going to the neighbor's barn with my Dad and watching them wrestle with a bull that had nosed a porcupine. They had him in a stanchion, with a halter roped up to an overhead beam, and a nose lead in him as well. The whole stable was shaking, and I thought he was going to pull the whole bank of stanchions right out of the floor.
On the other hand I had a dog show up at my place with a couple hundred quills in his nose. I caught him easily, and got the owner's info from his tag. Then I decided to see if I could pull any quills. I came out of the house clicking the pliers together, and the dog sat down and stuck his nose in the air, and wagged his tail. I guess he had been through that movie before.
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