Any Suggestions?
 

Have a porcupine in the garage, poor thing is scared to death, quills all over the floor.:noidea::noidea::noidea: I have called Animal Control, Wildlife Control, SPCA, Wildlife Protection, Private Wildlife centers NO One wants to deal with a porcupine. Do not want to scare it out of the garage for it to just go into someone elses yard. (maybe getting anothers pet). It is full size, they have clear cut the mountain directly behind us which is where it probablly came from. Does anyone know of someone who will come an capture it and relocate it?

Poor thing, I sure hate what we are doing to this planet:sad: Hopefully you can find someone to take care of the little guy.:sad:

unless your willing to put it in a box and relocate it yourself, good luck. You might as well give it the old flush down the toilet, and by flush I mean Shovel to the head and by toilet i mean the garbage or the "woods" behind you house and let something eat it.

I had to relocate a porcupine Mom and Baby once. They are not hard to "catch". caught it in a rubbermaid and then released in a forest. Tempt him in with fruit and close it when he goes in. Not sure you are willing to try but....it is possible. Unforunate that Wildlife control won't help you out.
My thoughts...at the very least scare him back to the mountain in hopes that he finds a home back towards the bushes. Atleast then he has a chance. :wink:
Good Luck......

Definitely not taking a shovel to it...I would relocate it myself, the mountain that he was probably living on now has no trees or bushes so I would have to travel farther with it, the only problem with this is I do not know if it has babies stashed away somewhere, I would hate to orphan them if that was the case.

True...:question:
Hard to know but he or she can't get to the babies in your garage. When I had the Mom and Baby, they stayed pretty close together, usually in or near fruit trees.

Best of luck. If you attempt catch and release, use a shovel to keep him from you. They don't attack but do try to back into you rather quickly.
Good luck!

I can't believe wildlife control wont relocate it for you :surprise: What is wildlife control for if not to help you control wildlife!!!!!

Laurie where we live they shoot bears in the backyard they do not try to move them.
Last year they shot a mom and cub just down the street the lesson here is do not call
them unless you are prepared for how they handle it.

Okay really?:twised:

Here is another avenue that you may try. Call your local newspaper. They love to eat stuff like this up when the proper Government ppl aren't doing there job.
I used to work at the SPCA and it is Wildlife Controls issue when it comes to anything "WILD" So they should b out there with a trap for it to trap it humanly without injury to you or it.

Okay I change my answer, give it a baloon to play with then when thats over and done with call wildlife control so they can trap/shoot it and "dispose" of it. They probably wont relocate a porcupine.

Be real people, Some things just suck.

not everything is jello covered in teddybears

Okay so we shouldn't try right? We just grab a shovel and hit it over the head and throw it out back? When WE are the ones who created the reason for it to end up in his garage by cutting down its home.
Wow some people never cease to amaze me!!

you're just one big softie, aren't you? Hope you take more care with your tank.
In my world, everything is jello covered in teddy bears(= good thing, right?). Catch the poor thing, give it some food and find it a home.

Sounds to me like coincidentally HAS tried! what are the chances of any of those organizations coming to get the animal then finding a good home for it? They will come and put on a show and catch the animal humanely then as soon as they are on a mountain road they will hit the eject button and launch the poor ****er off the side of a mountain( exaggerating of course)
I take it you have never had to de-quill a dog that got into a porcupine? 300+ needles in the face,palate,tongue,throat. Sure its the dogs fault for screwin with mr. pokey but sure as **** the dog is going to come to me for assistance. If you kill it and leave it on the mountain, the circle of life will be complete. if you don't know what that is go watch the Lion King

And Thanks, I think your amazing too!!


"you're just one big softie, aren't you? Hope you take more care with your tank.
In my world, everything is jello covered in teddy bears(= good thing, right?). Catch the poor thing, give it some food and find it a home. "

I take very excellent care of my tank, 30-60g water changes every week, feed every other day, clean the glass, renovated my house to accomodate the tank etc etc etc. There are bitter truths about some things, whether you want to face it or not.

I really hope that everything works out and you find a home for the cuddly little devil, last I heard porcupines make great pets.

Good thing we don't treat people with the same compassion as you do animals:(

Good luck Coincidentally i really hope you have a happy outcome:)

your one of those people who would swerve on the highway to miss a gopher, only to skid into the ditch and total your vehicle. All the while saying I'm so glad he's okay, arent you?

And you forget that this is animal. Singular, more specifically a porcupine. I hate them, but they do have cute faces.

I love animals, Cats,dogs,birds,fish etc etc. I'm trying to give a realistic idea of whats going to happen.

Go hug a tree

P.s. when you hug the tree i hope you get sap on you lol jj

winner

Someone's going to be denied the welcome to canreef banner at this rate lol.

actualy it wouldn't be there job, it would be the owners responcibility to get rid of it if it is on privat property.. best thing you could probaby do is call a pest removal company.. they might be able to at least stear you in the right direction.. might cost a bit but if you don't want to atempt it your self..

I used to rent a farm and we did things a bit differnetly.. but it was the porcupine or rish the pain to my dog if I let it stick around.. and if I tried to relocated it I would probably be the one that ended up being shot byy the farmer whos land I relocated it to.. guess growing up on a farm gives you different ideas that if you grew up in the city looking at pests on some one elses property. now I wouldn't say beet it with a shovel, that is kinda cruel, and you can shoot a shot gun in a residential area, sooo you are left with baiting it out and relocating it to goverment land or poision..

personaly in your situation I would try trapping it but make sure you drive a hell of a long ways away as it will comeback if it is close enough..

Steve

So what happened with the porcupine? I promise not to say anything after I am told

The porcupine left with some slight coaxing of salt covered tomatoes and waited until dark. We could not find anything large enough (he was huge) to trap him and there were no humane (didn't try any non-humane) pest control companies that will deal with porcupines in my area or any area close by. I did get some good pictures of him but I cannot seem to upload them here...My daughter also collected a whole lot of quills and is very excited about show and telling them.

Didn you try to give it a balloon?:lol: