Saskatchewan woman rescues porcupine stuck on its back
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A Saskatchewan woman filmed her unusual encounter with a porcupine having trouble getting off its back on a snowy road.
The video shows the woman using a snow brush from her SUV to help the porcupine flip back onto its legs Monday on a road in Melville.
"Apparently, this little guy is stuck on his back," the woman says in the video. I know how you feel, buddy. It happens to me in the morning sometimes.
The woman, who said she spotted the distressed creature while driving, ends up helping the porcupine a second time when climbing a difficult snowbank causes it to flip onto its back again.
"I saw a porcupine and stopped the vehicle to watch and see if he could get up," she wrote. Clearly, he could not.
"I looked for a tree branch but I didn't want to climb through the snow so I grabbed my snow brush from the back of my SUV and gave him a hand without being too intrusive in his space. My husband drove up and thought I was beating something and expressed his concern as he couldn't see what it was. He thought that it might have been an owl I had hit with the vehicle. I went back to check on the porcupine the next day but I couldn't find him, so he's obviously doing well in his natural habitat."
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