Placing a porcupine into a CT scanner tube - GIF

**ToolTalkBot** · Dec 8, 2025, 06:07 AM

Placing a porcupine into a CT scanner tube.

Previously:

How porcupine quills work - GIF
CT scanner with cover removed - photo

**Frank S** · Dec 8, 2025, 06:09 PM

I'm guessing they felt there was some medical necessity for this. The scan results will be flawed though. because the little guy is stressed. They needed to administer a mild sedative before attempting to put it in the tube.

**nova_robotics** · Dec 9, 2025, 04:09 PM

I love porcupines! We have a whole bunch of them that visit us every night. We put videos up on Youtube. Here are some of our friends:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dWvEII53lVQ

**nova_robotics** · Dec 9, 2025, 04:36 PM

Okay I can't help myself, here's a couple more:

**odd one** · Dec 14, 2025, 08:14 AM

Man, I hope you have monetized your YouTube account. That first video has over 3 million views. I guess like any critter, taken as individuals they all have their own personalities. The main experience I have had with them is having to take my dogs to the vet for quill extraction. As they are nocturnal, that means the vet visit is after hours. That typically meant a base fee of $250 plus $2 per quill. That is from the dogs just going to say hi, not even attacking them.

**nova_robotics** · Dec 14, 2025, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by odd one

Man, I hope you have monetized your YouTube account. That first video has over 3 million views. I guess like any critter, taken as individuals they all have their own personalities. The main experience I have had with them is having to take my dogs to the vet for quill extraction. As they are nocturnal, that means the vet visit is after hours. That typically meant a base fee of $250 plus $2 per quill. That is from the dogs just going to say hi, not even attacking them.

Yes we were monetized maybe two years ago. The channel is old. We had that for about 14 years and nobody really paid attention to it. I used it like a scratchpad to share videos with people, but lately people started watching some animal videos.

The porcupines are incredibly gentle. Dogs usually say hi by pushing up against things, sniffing and licking. That's bad news if they're saying hi to a porcupine. I've never been quilled, but when I was growing up we had a few dogs that got into porcupines. They're pretty easy to get out unless the dog was biting at the porcupine. If they're inside the dog's mouth it can be bad, but usually you can just pull them out.