Stowaway porcupine makes 2,000-km round-trip across B.C. by helicopter, plane, boat and truck

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Story here.

The young female was dubbed "Mackenzie" after the B.C. community about 100 kilometres north of Prince George where she is believed to have stowed away in the wreckage of a small plane crash...

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The porcupine was only discovered after the wreckage was taken to a salvage yard in Kelowna — more than 800 kilometres away from Mackenzie — first by helicopter, then by boat and a flat-deck trailer.

[After rehab] Mackenzie was taken to the airport in Penticton, B.C., and given to pilot Jayson Biggs, who flew her back to Mackenzie where conservation officers released her into the woods.

"That was probably the longest day of flying I've ever had," Biggs said.. (More details on his Instagram site)
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Porcupines are personal-non-grata at hunting camp and are dispatched with prejudice. They kill trees by ringing the bark, destroy cabin siding/deer blinds and have injured more than a few hunting dogs.

Rehab and an 800km return flight? That's insane in a country where people wait months/years for needed medical treatment.

A 5 cent .22LR to the head makes a lot more sense... :rolleyes:
 
s&wchad said:
Porcupines are personal-non-grata at hunting camp and are dispatched with prejudice. They kill trees by ringing the bark, destroy cabin siding/deer blinds and have injured more than a few hunting dogs.

Rehab and an 800km return flight? That's insane in a country where people wait months/years for needed medical treatment.

A 5 cent .22LR to the head makes a lot more sense... :rolleyes:
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I AGREE! What on Earth is wrong with these people sending a porcupine to "rehab"???
 
pharman said:
I AGREE! What on Earth is wrong with these people sending a porcupine to "rehab"???
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I'm not sure of the regs there but it may be that once it was discovered, they had to send it to a rehab centre before it could be released, and as the article stated, "rehabilitation centres are required to release wildlife close to their original homes."

Very different than having one terrorizing your camp! Anyway, the return trip was all paid for by volunteers and it made a good story.
 
In the early 1990s I was on Koh Samui, an island in the Gulf of Thailand, staying in an inexpensive resort with a number of bungalows. Breakfast was in a building with no walls which in addition to dining housed the front desk.

One morning a couple of Swedish backpackers were checking out as we were having breakfast. I watched as a lizard fell off the ceiling and onto one of the backpackers' backpacks, which was leaning against the front desk. The lizard scurried across the top of the backpack, and then under the backpack's top, dissapearing into the bag.

Once the backpackers finished checking out, one of them hoisted up the backpack, arranged it onto his back, and off they went.

I wonder now and then if that lizard made it back to Stockholm..
 
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