Any Suggestions?

Coincidentally · #1 07-03-2009, 06:06 PM

Have a porcupine in the garage, poor thing is scared to death, quills all over the floor.

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?

belzebuth · #2 07-03-2009, 06:15 PM

Poor thing, I sure hate what we are doing to this planet

Hopefully you can find someone to take care of the little guy.

Adam NS. · #3 07-03-2009, 06:33 PM

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.

Carmen · #4 07-03-2009, 06:42 PM

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.

Good Luck......

Coincidentally · #5 07-03-2009, 06:48 PM

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.

Carmen · #6 07-03-2009, 07:01 PM

True...

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!

fishoholic · #7 07-03-2009, 09:37 PM

I can't believe wildlife control wont relocate it for you

What is wildlife control for if not to help you control wildlife!!!!!

Leah · #8 07-03-2009, 10:11 PM

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.

findingnemo1 · #9 07-03-2009, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adam NS.

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.

Okay really?

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.

Adam NS. · #10 07-03-2009, 10:46 PM

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