{"id":393826,"date":"2026-07-31T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:28:13","slug":"texas-community-pays-dogs-vet-bill-after-porcupine-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393826\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas community pays dog\u2019s vet bill after porcupine attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strangers pay dog&#8217;s entire vet bill after emergency treatment for porcupine attack<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1a6bf7b2-5ae9-4264-bd50-ba6086c5f963_1694532921.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jocelyn Brumbaugh\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ABILENE, Texas (Video above: KTXS, ASIA GUETZKOW, CNN) \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">When a Texas family&#8217;s dog was attacked by a porcupine, they turned to their community for help. That&#8217;s when donations from strangers poured in, covering the entire vet bill. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Asia Guetzkow <a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/community-saves-dog-from-porcupine-quills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told KTXS<\/a> that her family&#8217;s dog, Deuce, was rushed to a veterinary clinic, where staff said it was one of the most severe cases of porcupine quills they&#8217;d ever seen.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Knowing that they&#8217;d be facing a hefty vet bill, Guetzkow said she posted on a local community Facebook page, hoping for a little help.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;I just post it on a whim, really,&#8221; Guetzkow said. &#8220;I was just like, let&#8217;s just hope and pray that someone out there will help us because we&#8211; we love that dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The community responded within minutes and eventually covered the bill in its entirety. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">&#8220;The community being so willing to help us \u2014 and we&#8217;re all strangers \u2014 it meant so much,&#8221; Guetzkow said. &#8220;It really shows that there are good people in this world, and Abilene is a really good community to be a part of. These strangers, without any hesitation, were willing to help. They were calling the vet, making donations, and using their hard-earned money to help our dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Guetzkow said people have also continued to check on Deuce&#8217;s recovery, and the vet clinic had to turn away donations for him by the end of the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strangers pay dog&#8217;s entire vet bill after emergency treatment for porcupine attack ABILENE, Texas (Video above: KTXS, ASIA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6040,248,138542,447,1964,138541,138552,138548,138551,138549,138550,94680,138545,138543,138547,138546,27,29,28,138544,116197],"class_list":["post-393826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abilene","tag-animal-rescue","tag-asia-guetzkow","tag-community","tag-community-support","tag-deuce","tag-dog-attacked","tag-dog-recovery","tag-emergency-treatment","tag-facebook-page","tag-family-dog","tag-jbnd","tag-local-donations","tag-porcupine-attack","tag-porcupine-quills","tag-strangers-help","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-vet-bill","tag-veterinary-clinic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}