Have you ever had an encounter gone wrong with this motherfucker?

They're extirpated from my state :(

>>2418794
I've seen one once when I was 16 and I shit my pants.
I was walking alone at night through a small path in the forest to reach a B&B until I saw this weird thing with quills exposed. I froze and let it pass near me. Only later I realized that it was actually a porcupine.

I'd feel better stabbed by one of those instead of our north American porcupines. I've only come across roadkill ones and YouTube's of captive ones being adorable.

>tfw loveable, cuddly animal cannot receive hugs and pets

>>2418798
Did you freeze because you thought he was Sonic in real life and you were too nervous to say anything?

>>2418845
I just had no fucking idea what that was, it was dark, and I saw a thing with quills passing in front of me.

>>2418851
So you knew what quills were, but not what a porcupine is? Why did you do this thing

>>2418855
you'd be surprised how many people think 'porcupine' and 'hedgehog' are interchangeable/the same thing

>>2418794
I never had an encounter with one of those at all ever, I live on the edge between city/suburbs and endless farms.

>>2418860
Did see a hedgehog when I was a kid though.
Had gotten lost in the middle of a bunch of gardens somehow.

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>>2418798
>>2418851
>>2418860

>>2418794
Not me, but a friend
>Fresh snowfall in the mountains
>Girlfriend at a work conference over the weekend
>He decides to take her doggo (big German Shepherd mix) on a long snowshoe hike
>Doggo has never been in deep fresh snow before
>Having an awesome time running around with him
>Doggo pretty well-trained most of the time, so not on a leash today (no one else likely to be up there, few animals likely to be out)
>They're about 5 miles away from where he parked the car
>Doggo suddenly goes full alert, takes off sprinting up and over the hill, barking like crazy
>He tries to follow and track doggo but doggo is really moving
>Starts snowing again
>Starts snowing hard
>Doggo's tracks get filled in
>He tries to follow for a while longer, but it's getting dark and has been snowing heavily for hours now
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>Snowshoes long way back to where he parked
>Reaches road
>Passes a couple of guys cross-country skiing and asks if they've seen doggo
>They have not seen doggo
>Loads snowshoes into car
>Starts driving home, making frantic plans to come back the next day and search again
>Object lurches out of snow where road crosses a creek
>Horry sheet, it's doggo
>Doggo totally covered in blood
>Carrying porcupine in mouth
>Porcupine still barely alive somehow
>Friend stops car, coaxes doggo to drop porcupine
>Gets doggo in car, drives immediately to vet
>100+ quills stuck in doggo's head, mouth, neck, back, paws, and throat
Friend no longer allowed to take doggo on hikes.

>>2418794
The North American version are tasty.