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9 years ago

Sounds a bit like "IT"!

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I wonder if the porcupine was REALLY making that noise. For a while, it DID almost sound like english!

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9 years ago

We aren't quite sure what he's saying but judging by his general love for food, he's probably saying something good. Teddy Bear is from Zooniversity, a traveling wildlife company that educates people about animals.

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Kay King 9 years ago

I watched it a couple times - that is the cutest thing. Had no idea they made noises like that.
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thunderbird

9 years ago

I have been thinking about this porcupine all day ever since seeing this video here. I started reading about them online and learning how intelligent they are. I count myself as a porcupine fan now.

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HeySal

9 years ago

I've been a fan of these little guys forever. I'm looking at this one and it almost looks dequilled. Is that possible? I'd have one for a pet in a heartbeat if the can be dequilled. I've lived around them and they are highly intelligent and extremely communicable.

NOTE: 3 of my 5 past dogs would not have agreed with any of what I just said. After pulling quills out of their faces, I can empathize with them not liking the little guys, though.

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Mikaedi

9 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I've been a fan of these little guys forever. I'm looking at this one and it almost looks dequilled. Is that possible? I'd have one for a pet in a heartbeat if the can be dequilled. I've lived around them and they are highly intelligent and extremely communicable.

NOTE: 3 of my 5 past dogs would not have agreed with any of what I just said. After pulling quills out of their faces, I can empathize with them not liking the little guys, though.

Soo cute, nice to see and experience, though I would say your three dogs would have learnt sone painful lessons/ bit still if the first time they got quilled they went back for seconds. would have been rather funny to see. I'm a fan of them as well, cute little critters.

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HeySal

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikaedi

Soo cute, nice to see and experience, though I would say your three dogs would have learnt sone painful lessons/ bit still if the first time they got quilled they went back for seconds. would have been rather funny to see. a fan of therm as well, cute little critters.

Mikaedi

Only one got hit twice, and that was a mistake on his part. The first time he was a pup and just wanted to play. A half an afternoon in a vet's office later he knew what the animals were about. Later years, though, we ran into a dead one and he thought that he'd gotten hit before because he put his mouth on it, so this time just carefully nudged it. He got 3 quills in his nose and upper lip. After that he'd just jump up and down and bark at them. He'd get close but not close enough to get "stung".

It was funny one day I saw him jumping and barking and I couldn't figure out why. We weren't where there were snakes and a porcupine didn't make sense there either, so I went to look. There was an animal shaped clump of dirt with dead grass about the length of porcupine quills. He was just going nuts over it. LMAO.

I used to feed them up in the Mt's of Colorado. It's hard to make friends with something that you really can't touch. They always made me want to pick them up and cuddle them and I was always sad that I couldn't.

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bizgrower

9 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Only one got hit twice, and that was a mistake on his part. The first time he was a pup and just wanted to play. A half an afternoon in a vet's office later he knew what the animals were about. Later years, though, we ran into a dead one and he thought that he'd gotten hit before because he put his mouth on it, so this time just carefully nudged it. He got 3 quills in his nose and upper lip. After that he'd just jump up and down and bark at them. He'd get close but not close enough to get "stung".

It was funny one day I saw him jumping and barking and I couldn't figure out why. We weren't where there were snakes and a porcupine didn't make sense there either, so I went to look. There was an animal shaped clump of dirt with dead grass about the length of porcupine quills. He was just going nuts over it. LMAO.
I used to feed them up in the Mt's of Colorado. It's hard to make friends with something that you really can't touch. They always made me want to pick them up and cuddle them and I was always sad that I couldn't.

There's a bronze statue of a miner with a burro in Breckenridge, CO. My first dog would always
climb up the pedestal to sniff at the burro to see if it was real. This was after going by it tens of times per year.

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HeySal

9 years ago

Originally Posted by bizgrower

There's a bronze statue of a miner with a burro in Breckenridge, CO. My first dog would always
climb up the pedestal to sniff at the burro to see if it was real. This was after going by it tens of times per year.

LOL - I know that statue. That's hilarious.

Steve - one of the few times an animal ever truly terrified me - I was walking my dog late at night and he took an unexpected bolt and I brought him up short, stopped, and raised my arnis stick. I looked into the field next to me and didn't see anything. As I continued to look further downward I finally saw the little white stripe of the tail, and it was UP! I just froze - thought I was soon to be a social reject for a few months. Finally it dropped it's tail and turned to walk off and I brought my arm down real slow and took off in the other direction. WHEW that was soooooo close. I thought I was going to get sprayed almost point blank. I'm so glad those aren't real nervous little guys.

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Cali16 9 years ago

That has to be one of the cutest YouTube videos ever! Thanks for posting that, Dan!
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thunderbird 9 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I've been a fan of these little guys forever. I'm looking at this one and it almost looks dequilled. <snip>

I looked it up. Porcupines can be safely de-quilled by specially trained and certified experts on de-quilling porcupines (NOT the hedgehog dequilling technique which involves a process that is wrong for porcupines). It is an expensive service and the quills grow right back. So, you probably have to be wealthy if you actually want a pet porcupine.This porcupine is cared-for by an educational facility, so I assume its caretakers knows how to properly and safely de-quill a porcupine. Zooniversity » About Us
"Allison Blankenship has expert qualifications. She holds a BA in Biology from Bucknell University ..." etc.
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bizgrower

9 years ago

My dog that had a run in with one did go after it a second time.
I stupidly loosened my grip on his leash (actually a 20' horse lunge line)
a little too soon and he went back to it.

Probably about 60 quills in his face. As my one of my vets noted, he was a very
stoic dog. I lived in the boonies then, no local vets were open, and during the
hour plus ride to the emergency room he pawed at his face a little, once or twice.
Just a minor annoyance to him, it seemed.

They say dogs either get hurt so bad the first time that they avoid them in the future.
Or, like mine, they just want to kill them. As many times as possible.

Some dogs kill by laying down on their prey. When that happens, the quills can actually
work their way into the lungs of the dog. Probably able to cause infection as well as wound.

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seasoned

9 years ago

It IS funny. It does seem cute, and the sounds just make it seem cuter. I wonder what the sound means. One time it DOES seem to say "pumpkin".

Still, it COULD be saying "LADY! GO AWAY! Let me eat in PEACE!"! I have heard that the smile chimps often display is a grimace. And skunks do like a cute little stomp that means "GET OUT OF HERE NOW, *****OR ELSE*****!!!!!!!! You have X seconds!"! If you ignore it, they spray.

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MikeTucker

9 years ago

Porcupines and skunks both make fantastic pets.

But I cannot help but think of the story of two of my Uncles,
who as young men took a burlap sack of burs accross Arizona
and sold them for 50 cents each as porcupine eggs, complete
with written instructions on how to care for and raise them!

(Porcupines give live birth of course... they don't lay eggs.)

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Kay King

9 years ago

Porcupine who thinks he is a puppy! - YouTube

I did not realize they could be so playful.

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Mikaedi

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Porcupine who thinks he is a puppy! - YouTube

I did not realize they could be so playful.

Wow how lucky you are Kay, they just seem soo adorable almost like playful puppies..and soo cute...and Kay they don't even seem like quills only though as youre wearing gloves.

Awesome Vid, thanks for the share.

Mikaedi

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Richard Van

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikaedi

Wow how lucky you are Kay, they just seem soo adorable almost like playful puppies..and soo cute...and Kay they don't even seem like quills only though as youre wearing gloves.

Awesome Vid, thanks for the share.

Mikaedi

I may be wrong but I'm not sure that's Kay's pet.

If it is I've not heard her mention it. I think it's a video she found.

Excellent video though.

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Kay King 9 years ago

True - not my porcupine, though I'd love a chance to play with it.
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- bizgrower 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  True - not my porcupine, though I'd love a chance to play with it.
  
  Are they allowed I Ohio? If so, you could get one and sell the eggs in Claude's store.
  
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  Or I could not get one and still sell the "eggs" in Claude's store
  
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seasoned

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeTucker

Porcupines and skunks both make fantastic pets.

But I cannot help but think of the story of two of my Uncles,
who as young men took a burlap sack of burs accross Arizona
and sold them for 50 cents each as porcupine eggs, complete
with written instructions on how to care for and raise them!

(Porcupines give live birth of course... they don't lay eggs.)

Maybe they tried to say that porcupines were like platypuses!

Maybe that was the first pet rock craze! Ever see the petrock? There are these nice rounded rocks you can get ALL OVER some beaches, like in calabashes, ca USA. Someone took a whole bunch, packed them on some hay in cardboard boxes, and sold them with an instruction book on care and training.

Steve