Cute and Cuddly (No)

While spraying some apple trees behind our barn I noticed what looked like a very fat, hairy woodchuck in some weeds.



The "fat woodchuck" turned out to be a young porcupine.



After several minutes of attempting to pose the porcupine for a photograph I let it proceed from the field to the woods where it climbed the first small tree it found.



A photo of some quills in my boot after attempting to pose the porcupine for a photograph.