Squeak the Baby Porcupine

September 30, 2024 3:20 AM

Watch Squeak go from being so tiny she can’t eat a peanut, to being able to eat one peanut at a time, to chomping through sweet potato slices like a champ.

Squeak’s young mom is Spike, who had her quite late in the season and is, um, an imperfect parent. Squeak is feisty, pushy, and one of many wild neighbors.

I have been enjoying watching her grow, specifically, but there are a lot of other characters, like Chonkers who has mastered cups, Prickly with magnificent hair, and patient Pip.

More fine dining with Squeak.

posted by Mizu (11 comments total)

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posted by HearHere at 3:31 AM on September 30 [3 favorites]

Oh man these guys are so charming.

I'm amused at the compulsion to tell a small animal how tiny it is. "you're so small! You really are very small"
posted by Zumbador at 3:39 AM on September 30 [7 favorites]

The first time I encountered a porcupine in the wild was weird because they just don't give a fuck. Deer, rabbits, squirrels will all startle and run away when you accidentally sneak up on them, and it's usually a bad sign (rabies) when an animal doesn't immediately scurry away when you come across them. That porcupine just did not care that I had stumbled across it as long as I remained more than ten feet away. If I got closer than that it just passive-aggressively moved a little farther away and continued eating.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 6:30 AM on September 30 [4 favorites]

Porcupines are frustratingly cute. You want to snuggle and pet them, but you usually can't. It's unfair.
posted by tommasz at 7:42 AM on September 30 [5 favorites]

I am very impressed at Chonker's dexterity with the cup!
posted by tavella at 8:02 AM on September 30 [1 favorite]

Baby porcupine tantrum! Next time I am upset I too will spin around in awkward circles until I fall off the platform I am standing on.
posted by praemunire at 9:55 AM on September 30 [1 favorite]

"Why porcupines not be friends?" (See also bears).

Totally not friends. Squeak is pretty fucking adorable I have to say.
posted by Windopaene at 10:22 AM on September 30

Porcupines are awful. They destroy fruit trees but they are so stinking cute that you can't stay mad at them. Bastards.
posted by xthlc at 10:48 AM on September 30

Cute, but not as vocal as Teddy
posted by The otter lady at 2:32 PM on September 30 [2 favorites]

A baby porcupine is (sometimes) called a porcupette. That is all.
posted by The Bellman at 2:59 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]

Who move like Porcupettual Motion Machines.
posted by y2karl at 3:54 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]