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Penny

May 18, 2020

On May 18th, 2020 we received a call about a hit by car porcupine and a baby laying in the road cuddled up to the deceased mother. She was tiny and dehydrated and still had her umbilical stump so we knew she was only a few days old. When I realized she was a female I knew I had my work cut out for me. Female porcupines are notorious for being very grumpy.

Exploring the outside

Once she was well hydrated we weaned her onto formula and began taking her outside for short foraging adventures. Although porcupines are nocturnal animals they often get sun when sleep out on tree limbs and newborns do not climb trees for many weeks so they are foraging on the ground in between naps.

She didn't grow MUCH

She remained relatively small for quite a while but she was a great eater and I gotta say she was one of the MOST ADORABLE PORCUPINES EVER!!! She was built like a teddy bear and she had the cute personality to go with it.

May 30, 2020

How could I not fall in love?

Penny Learning to eat

Being an orphaned wild animal is not easy. The formula does not taste like mom, the nipple does not feel like mom and these predators trying to shove things in my face do not look like mom. The sights and sounds around them are not like what they are use to. It is pretty overwhelming.

July 27, 2020

Baby Penny Happily Munching Away

She was very photogenic

August 2020

Time to move outside?

By 3 months old she was still on formula but able to be moved outside. What we didn't know was something was brewing. Within a week of her moving outside she developed loose stool and flies took advantage of her. We took her back inside. Sadly, she passed away after a few days of fighting to save her life. I cried for days and beat myself up for failing her. But because of her, we have new protocols for transitioning porcupines outside to pre-release enclosures. Just because the old ones worked for many before her, she helped make things better for the future.

She is now memorialized on my arm, close to my heart, always


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