So… my brave little girl was defending me from a local porcupine (from the Latin porcus pig + spina spine, quill) and came away with a few prizes.
To be fair, spiny-pigs are actually rodents, and Scully is quite adept at dispatching rodents. Just maybe not the ones with quills…
Not to worry though… 10 minutes later and she was all wags and licks. What a good girl!