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Link: Peninsula Clarion Kenai Peninsula mushers are in a prickly situation. They need to train their dogs in the cooler evening hours, but nighttime is when porcupines come out. It seems there have been more encounters between dog snouts and quills this year. "They're on the trails, on the beach, they're everywhere," says Iditarod musher Tim Osmar. "Even driving on the roads in the morning, I'm seeing two or three that people have hit overnight." One night, both his leaders got "quilled" and he had to call his wife on a cell phone to come and help him get the dogs home.