A dog that was found with more than 850 porcupine quills in her face is slowly on the road to recovery.

Fern, an American Staffordshire terrier mix, was taken in earlier this month by the Nova Scotia SPCA and has since had multiple hospital visits to remove the quills.

The SPCA wrote in a Facebook post (WARNING: includes a photo that some may find disturbing) that it’s a “race against time” for veterinarians because the longer it takes to remove the quills, the greater the chance for them to break into small pieces and enter the body through the skin.

“Porcupine quills have microscopic barbs like fish hooks. And so we definitely don’t want those in our animal,” NS SPCA spokesperson Sarah Lyon said.

The SPCA can’t comment on where Fern was found or who brought her in because there i

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