Porcupine

As you saw yesterday, the porcupine, can be a very destructive creature. If you don't take some precautions, they will chew on your house, or cabin. Like Aunt Anna and Uncle Skip, folks in porcupine country often will put salt on a nearby tree stump and the porcupines, which apparently crave salt, chew away on the stump rather than their cabin. It can make for some interesting yard art.

Although the porcupine does den and I can show you a porcupine den tree on the hill, usually they just eat all night and sleep in the nearest tree during the day. Note the "debarked" branches in the background of this napping tree killer.

Here's one I found last week in a hemlock tree, first from the side with his tail below the branch on the left.

And then face to ugly face.