Comments on: porcupines http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/ a place where nature, photography and writing meet Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: burning silo http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/comment-page-1/#comment-32810 burning silo Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:52:19 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/#comment-32810 Jim - Great story about the porcupine. They really are so amusing when they get a bit annoyed. So grumpy and yet also not at all aggressive. Just think how scary it would be if, instead of sauntering off, they became confrontational instead! Jim – Great story about the porcupine. They really are so amusing when they get a bit annoyed. So grumpy and yet also not at all aggressive. Just think how scary it would be if, instead of sauntering off, they became confrontational instead!

]]> By: Jim Poushinsky http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/comment-page-1/#comment-32799 Jim Poushinsky Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:46:53 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/#comment-32799 Love your porky photos! The tracks in the snow don't show the characteristic furrow made by a dragging tail, so your animal must have been strutting it's stuff! I had a big porky chewing on a vertical board in my woodshed last winter. Looking out towards the chewing noise through the screen in the door, all I could see was the hands and feet curled round the edge. When I talked to him he peered around to look at me. As I explained in my most authoritarian voice that he wasn't welcome to chew on my shed, the porky climbed down, glared at me making his own loud threatening noises, and abruptly turned about raising his tail and clicking all his quills upright with a grand flourish. The quills made a light coloured spiral pattern that drew attention to the only naked spot, his black puckered anus, right in the middle of the target. No wonder every dog I've owned has had quills through nose and cheeks from all directions! Mr. Attitude sauntered off making challenging grunts daring me to bite him too, but I was smarter :-) A few nights later I intercepted him as he attempted to return to the shed, and he huffed off never to be seen again. Cheers, Jim Love your porky photos! The tracks in the snow don’t show the characteristic furrow made by a dragging tail, so your animal must have been strutting it’s stuff!

I had a big porky chewing on a vertical board in my woodshed last winter. Looking out towards the chewing noise through the screen in the door, all I could see was the hands and feet curled round the edge. When I talked to him he peered around to look at me. As I explained in my most authoritarian voice that he wasn’t welcome to chew on my shed, the porky climbed down, glared at me making his own loud threatening noises, and abruptly turned about raising his tail and clicking all his quills upright with a grand flourish. The quills made a light coloured spiral pattern that drew attention to the only naked spot, his black puckered anus, right in the middle of the target. No wonder every dog I’ve owned has had quills through nose and cheeks from all directions! Mr. Attitude sauntered off making challenging grunts daring me to bite him too, but I was smarter :-) A few nights later I intercepted him as he attempted to return to the shed, and he huffed off never to be seen again.

Cheers,
Jim

]]> By: burning silo http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/comment-page-1/#comment-32347 burning silo Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:23:39 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/#comment-32347 Dave - Thanks, and you're welcome. Glad to (unknowingly) oblige! You're quite right about that last photo -- the debarked tree was so interesting to look at and had a real "graphic" quality that was quite pleasing to look at. - John - Thanks! Glad you found it of interest. I think I spend so much time wandering around outdoors, that I sometimes forget that others haven't had a chance to study some of these creatures up close. Dave – Thanks, and you’re welcome. Glad to (unknowingly) oblige! You’re quite right about that last photo — the debarked tree was so interesting to look at and had a real “graphic” quality that was quite pleasing to look at.
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John – Thanks! Glad you found it of interest. I think I spend so much time wandering around outdoors, that I sometimes forget that others haven’t had a chance to study some of these creatures up close.

]]> By: John http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/comment-page-1/#comment-32311 John Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:34:06 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/02/20/porcupines/#comment-32311 Bev, you've outdone yourself with this post. Fascinating stuff! Bev, you’ve outdone yourself with this post. Fascinating stuff!

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