Cape Porcupine
Very good diggers, need concrete or chain link under dirt to allow digging behavior but prevent escape. Live in burrows; need a nestbox or cave. Expect chewing on any chewable surfaces. Food and water bowls should be metal or concrete. Voluntary injections can be trained for the shoulder area hip is not accessible. Can have sensitive stomachs.
Notes on Enrichment Training
For enrichment, digging and foraging opportunities are important, as well as chewing. Paper bags and boxes can be given to tear apart as long as no material is ingested. The porcupine should walk next to you without surging ahead and cutting you off. This could be on a stage, or on a table or box. Guests can approach the head if the porcupine is comfortable with that. Tail rattling is the next level, and is acceptable, but should not be reinforced. Foot stomping is next, then vocalization and charging backwards or sideways. Porcupines will bite. The handler should have a calm and resilient demeanor, and not be nervous, because porcupines will try to scare you, and then they know they have the upper hand. Natural habitat, frequently in areas that are legally protected, is lost for wildlife, trees and topsoil scraped away. In addition, toxins from green bay packer jersey discarded electronics leach out of local landfills and contaminate waterways here at home. Please ask guests to think twice before replacing their electronic devices and to recycle their old ones when they do. Dark brown to black. Long to very long quills starting from nike free run 3 tiffany blue about the waist and covering michael kors handbags outlet on sale the rear, black with white bands and tipped with white, some are very sharp but the longest ones are not. These quills can be erected, usually forming a sort of tutu, but can go past nike tiffany blue free runs vertical and slant forward towards the head. A patch nike free runs tiffany blue of white quills above the tail, and a white crescent moon "necklace" on the chest. A long, erectile crest of hair on the back of the head and neck, predominantly white along most of the distal end of the hair. Tail has wide, hollow quills that womens nike free run 3 tiffany blue are used as a rattle.