|
The porcupine in the room...
This past summer a porcupine began showing up every morning around 3 am to scrounge for left-over bird seeds. I'm up every morning at 3 am, and so I began to go outside and put seeds out for the porcupine. And sure enough the porcupine showed up like clockwork each morning.
After 2-3 weeks of this routine, the porcupine was at the door each morning, waiting. I would open the door and it would stick its nose in as if to say, "Hi I'm here, where's my breakfast?" I had to carefully open the door to get out because it wouldn't move! I would step out and walk over to the feed area, and the whole time the porcupine would be following along 3-4 feet behind me.
FallingLeaves, you ask why people persist in thinking animals are "comparitively 'pure' creatures". This story is why.
|