This is one of my fave things about Squeak, her cuddly toy obsession! It's so lovely to watch how proud she is of it. ☺️ What a beautiful little girl she is. Not so little these days!
@@JaceyDemy Just consider that Chestnut, Spike, Chonkers etc. are adults, but I can't stop comparing them to babies because of their illegal cuteness ❤️❤️❤️
While it's pretty obvious to all of us but apparently not to the hoomans filming Squeak, Squeak is desperately searching for a heated warm bed both for herself and her teddy in the kitchen, with a nearby handbell so Squeak can summon the hoomans when she needs a food refill... 🥰
I'm wondering if the play wrestling is for fun and/or practice. Judging from the quills in the nose now and then, they must scuffle with each other on occasion. In any event we all enjoy watching Squeak tumble with her stuffed toys....dragging peanuts and everything along. Then, stopping for a snack.
Just when I think she couldn't get any cuter, she does this! I can envision her and Teddy taking a cozy comfy nap together in the corner. Yes, she LOVES her Teddy!
So I did see where Teddy was originally for Chonkers (correct me if I'm wrong!) and he wasn't super enthused with it. Now I know his plan was to save it for his kid ❤
There is much more to porcupines than one would think. Sqeak likes her toy! I enjoy the opportunity to watch how they interact with you.....never have been around a porcupine!! They have kind of a negative reputation!😊
I'm assuming they'll hate hate hate being outside in the cold and will want to be inside with the two of you? Speaking of weather, I saw online that 2025 is going to be the hottest year on record??? I hate extreme heat but I'll take it instead of the cold! I cannot handle the cold anymore!!!
@@joels7605 As much as I like the idea of a doggy door for the porcupines, I think the reality would be a chaotic mess. And you might suddenly have a free for all of many forest creatures wandering through your house. 😊
Squeak adores her toy and, as someone has rightly said, carries it about like a dog carrying something precious in its mouth - cats tend to chase things (many years ago I had one that chased a toy mouse till its tail and ears were all gone and it was just a grey shape). I really learn about porcupines, watching your videos: they have such different personalities, but they're all fascinating.
The white hairs on her back above her tail and around the perimeter of her tail are the quills. In the winter they get a thick fur coat. That's mostly what you see on her front and back, because the fur grows longer than the quills in those places. Under all of her winter fur are zillions of tiny needle quills. The only place they don't have quills is on their legs and belly.
Aw, baby girl does love her emotional support Teddy. Does Squeak still follow her mom Spike around or is Squeak living independently now? (i.e. has she left home?)
I’m amazed at the personality of Squeak. I wonder what makes her tick. From what I have understood, most porkies are pretty mellow. Squeak is unusual and special in her personality. Maybe because she was born so small, she has SPS? (Small Porcupine Syndrome? Kinda like SMS, small man syndrome) Thanks for sharing your work with these amazing creatures.
I'm curious if we'd given toys to more of them when they were really young, if they would have played with them too. And whether them being food secure allows them the time for playing when normally they'd need to save that energy for foraging? Joel and I were surprised to see the orphaned porcupettes at Hope For Wildlife having similar wrestling matches with each other, even though in the wild, they theoretically shouldn't get that opportunity since they're supposed to be solitary and rarely have more than one baby at a time. But I'd also only put together the other night that Chonkers used to play with a glass bowl when we first met him. I don't think there'd been food in it for a while when he found it. Spike didn't so much play with things, as much as she likes exploring and touching new objects. She was the first one to try to figure out if she could operate the door herself (and also the first one who wanted to look in the toilet). She also seems to think every object in the house is about half an inch from where it ought to be.
I think badness makes her tick. But I hope she never grows out of it. She's so funny. I can't believe how different they all are. They're all individuals.
@@Forest_Friend We had an orphan porcupine (Pokey), and my late husband put a tree in our front room for him. There was a small bucket-like pail tied to a little rope that he would pull up(claw over claw) to get the treats inside. I thought that was smart of him! He only did it a few times, however.
I love Squeak 🩷, there I said it 😝 Normally, I would be wondering if this was teething, but since porcupettes (& rodents in general) are born with permanent teeth…onto a new theory 😅 Occam’s razor- Squeak just wants a buddy to play with! NA Porcupines are almost always born as singletons & they’re solitary animals, though they do occasionally congregate, as we have seen on this channel (especially in the cold), porcupettes usually play a bit with their mamas…but since Spike is convinced Squeak is the spawn of 😈, perhaps Squeak is missing a play mate! I bet Squeak wanted to play with you & Forest Friend but ah, the logistics is a bit tricky 🤭😂 Do you guys have access to the full Hazmat suits, so you can play with her?! 😂
Joel got me a puppet that I can use to play with Squeak fairly safely, but she can't run around with it as freely as with her Teddy and Quilly. Also, we noticed the orphaned porcupettes at Hope For Wildlife have wrestling matches too, and Pip used to try to wrestle Chonkers. Come to think of it, we first met Chonkers when he was playing with a bowl, kind of similar to what Squeak does.
Squeak just loves her teddy, I just think she is so adorable . She plays just like a domestic furbaby, but then again she is semi domesticated. 😊❤❤❤🐾🐾❤❤
We can learn so much from animals. Frankly we don't deserve them. All animals are capable of playtime. And it's a unique experience to watch it happen because only humans have that ability. I don't believe in a god per se. But you are doing "God's work". As an animal rehabber myself of opossums I really enjoy these videos. I've had one wild and 5 babies. It's been the best experience of my life. I would be in heaven with these wild porcupines. Good on you.
@joels7605 the only marsupial indigenous to our country. They can resist snake venom. Can sustain over 100 bites from a rattle snake. Are all but immune to rabies. As a marsupial they have a lower than average body temperature in which the disease can not sustain itself. They have no natural defensess. None. When they "play opossum" and look like they're dead? That's a natural cardiovascular response. They literally pass out. Their blood pressure drops so low they feint. They literally FEINT. From fear. And in that state it can last from moments to hours. You can pick them up. Carry them around. Please always be kind. They kill over 4 thousand (potentially) disease carrying ticks a year. When they open their mouths and drool? And growl? Yeah. It's all a bluff. They are capable of biting and trust me that bite could totally mess you up. But. They're teeth and bite force is rarely used on humans it's literally there to eat the bones they need for calcium. Without calcium they can literally become bone brittle. Like the elderly. Unlike other animals they can digest bone. So. If you have opossums in your vicinity. Give them your chicken bones. Please don't feed them cat food. They require high calcium protein diets. Cat food is ok on occasion. Please don't hurt wildlife. That's the bottom line. Be kind.
@joels7605 opossums when in captivity (it happens) they imprint on their caregiver. I've had 3 that were totally wild and we let them right out. Sometimes they imprint on us. It happens with beavers and the famous porcupine Teddy. If they imprint. They can't live in the wild. My last opossum imprinted and Blossom was the little critter love of my life. Sadly. Opossums only live 2 years on average. Essentially the same as a rat. In the wild it's often less because of predation and accidents. If you come across an opossum road kill. Please check for babies.
Squeak is so charismatic, such a star, such a darlin', and she loves her Teddy so very much. Is it because it has become a part of her; her smell; her mouth; even her fur? Or is it the family member she never had? Squeak always seemed so alienated from Spike, her Mother. But she and Teddy are together forever. Such is childhood love. Adorable Squeak and Teddy, you melt my heart. 💞💞
We're worried about what's going to happen when she finally shreds teddy. We've been looking for a similar teddy to replace it, but we can't find one. Hopefully she's not depressed.
@@Ruby-xn3po Dan Dee International! I didn't think to check the tag before, because we bought it in our local grocery store around Valentine's Day last year. Sadly, they don't seem to be stocking them this year.
Yes a bit. She'll pull back. There was a video recently where Squeak got into our groceries and started tugging on a bag of apples. That was kinda funny.
This is one of my fave things about Squeak, her cuddly toy obsession! It's so lovely to watch how proud she is of it. ☺️ What a beautiful little girl she is. Not so little these days!
2:34 Her sneeze 😍😍😍😍
I think she likes Teddy so much because he's the only one she can actually bully and get away with it! 😂
Teddy hasn't quilled her yet! He's a good friend. 😊
Logically, I know that our Squeak has grown up and is no longer a baby.
In my heart...I know that Squeak will always be a baby.
She's less than 6 months old. I think she's still a baby.
@@JaceyDemy Just consider that Chestnut, Spike, Chonkers etc. are adults, but I can't stop comparing them to babies because of their illegal cuteness ❤️❤️❤️
That girl does adore her precious Teddy. And we all adore Squeak. ❤❤❤
Awww Squeak and her teddy bear shes such a sweetheart and a gremlin all at the same time its so cute
While it's pretty obvious to all of us but apparently not to the hoomans filming Squeak, Squeak is desperately searching for a heated warm bed both for herself and her teddy in the kitchen, with a nearby handbell so Squeak can summon the hoomans when she needs a food refill... 🥰
I swear they were the same size when I started watching this channel. Just in case anyone was wondering where all those peanuts go. 😊
They were! Her teddy might have even been a bit bigger!
It’s official: she can live indoors by now
OK you sleep now teddypine, I gotta go get me some peanuts. All this playing makes a girl hungry!
I'm wondering if the play wrestling is for fun and/or practice. Judging from the quills in the nose now and then, they must scuffle with each other on occasion. In any event we all enjoy watching Squeak tumble with her stuffed toys....dragging peanuts and everything along. Then, stopping for a snack.
Just when I think she couldn't get any cuter, she does this! I can envision her and Teddy taking a cozy comfy nap together in the corner. Yes, she LOVES her Teddy!
Who knew porcupines could love a stuffie so much? Squeak, your personality shines, and you’re adorable!! ❤️❤️
And who knew we would spend a lot of time watching a porcupine being a silly baby? All of them actually! ❤😂
Agreed ❤
Aww, she’s like a puppy, carrying her toy everywhere ❤
I think Squeak is the porcupine equivalent of Tulip the Beaver......completely and totally unique. ❤❤❤
Seeing baby squeak with her teddy is just soooo adorable 🥰 ❤❤❤
She's only a step or two away from being able to pay for her peanuts and sweet potatoes by cleaning the floor for you.
😅
So I did see where Teddy was originally for Chonkers (correct me if I'm wrong!) and he wasn't super enthused with it. Now I know his plan was to save it for his kid ❤
@@ajfuller83 Yes it was! We thought Chonkers needed a stuffed toy friend.
@@joels7605 Chonkers thought of it as a potential mate instead 😂
Squeak won that wrestling match and now its time for a snack break before the next bout. She's gotta keep her strength up!
If you could get passed being stuck by 90 million quills. It would be worth it. To hug ol' Squeakers.
WWF for baby porcupines
Was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
There is much more to porcupines than one would think. Sqeak likes her toy! I enjoy the opportunity to watch how they interact with you.....never have been around a porcupine!! They have kind of a negative reputation!😊
They really do, but they're one of the nicest animals in the world. They're so kind and gentle, and people are so mean to them.
I'm in love, cuteness overload ❤
There is quite literally nothing cuter, than a wild animal playing with toys 😄😄
Squeak! I hope they'll be okay with the bitter cold weather coming in next week.
Uh oh. It's going to get really cold??
Yep, big chill! Check your local!❄️🌍❣️
I'm assuming they'll hate hate hate being outside in the cold and will want to be inside with the two of you?
Speaking of weather, I saw online that 2025 is going to be the hottest year on record???
I hate extreme heat but I'll take it instead of the cold! I cannot handle the cold anymore!!!
what an interesting little creature she is
You may as well admit it…. You have a permanent messy roommate.😂. Put in a tiny doggie door and call it a day. 😂😂😂😂
@@CharLiAdventures I just bought a doggy door! Forest Friend said no.
@@joels7605 As much as I like the idea of a doggy door for the porcupines, I think the reality would be a chaotic mess. And you might suddenly have a free for all of many forest creatures wandering through your house. 😊
@ Oh it absolutely would. EVERY animal in the woods would immediately move in on the first day.
I would be their leader!
One of these times she’s going to want to take her stuffy home with her 😅
@@naomisgram1 She is home, this is *_her_* house 😂💁🏻♀️
@ she still sleeps in the woods though in a burrow, that’s what I’m meaning 😊
@@naomisgram1 Just joshing with ya 😉
@@JudesChan 😄
Squeak is so weird, I love her.
Aww Squeak loves her toy and is having a great play time ❤❤❤❤
I had a very rough day. This video cheered me right up!❤❤❤
She's like a spiky little anti-depressant!
Squeak loves her teddy. Cuteness overload.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
HER LITTLE PAWS AND THAT SNEEZE *dies of cute*
Squeak you always know how to make me laugh! 🤣💟
Squeak adores her toy and, as someone has rightly said, carries it about like a dog carrying something precious in its mouth - cats tend to chase things (many years ago I had one that chased a toy mouse till its tail and ears were all gone and it was just a grey shape). I really learn about porcupines, watching your videos: they have such different personalities, but they're all fascinating.
I don't see their quills but they are adorable
The white hairs on her back above her tail and around the perimeter of her tail are the quills. In the winter they get a thick fur coat. That's mostly what you see on her front and back, because the fur grows longer than the quills in those places. Under all of her winter fur are zillions of tiny needle quills. The only place they don't have quills is on their legs and belly.
I love this baby. xxx
Aw, baby girl does love her emotional support Teddy. Does Squeak still follow her mom Spike around or is Squeak living independently now? (i.e. has she left home?)
Yup. Spike isn't coming around much, but Squeak will still follow her like her shadow.
Porcupine puppy!
😂😂😂😂 it looks like to me she loves to hate it ❤❤❤❤❤😅😅😅😅😂😂
Gorgeous Squeak ❤
Awww, this video is so adorable. Squeak a boo is definitely laying the smack down!!!
Another day of Squeak being adorably 🦔❤️
That tail thump 😭🥰
I’m amazed at the personality of Squeak. I wonder what makes her tick. From what I have understood, most porkies are pretty mellow. Squeak is unusual and special in her personality. Maybe because she was born so small, she has SPS? (Small Porcupine Syndrome? Kinda like SMS, small man syndrome) Thanks for sharing your work with these amazing creatures.
I'm curious if we'd given toys to more of them when they were really young, if they would have played with them too. And whether them being food secure allows them the time for playing when normally they'd need to save that energy for foraging?
Joel and I were surprised to see the orphaned porcupettes at Hope For Wildlife having similar wrestling matches with each other, even though in the wild, they theoretically shouldn't get that opportunity since they're supposed to be solitary and rarely have more than one baby at a time.
But I'd also only put together the other night that Chonkers used to play with a glass bowl when we first met him. I don't think there'd been food in it for a while when he found it. Spike didn't so much play with things, as much as she likes exploring and touching new objects. She was the first one to try to figure out if she could operate the door herself (and also the first one who wanted to look in the toilet). She also seems to think every object in the house is about half an inch from where it ought to be.
I think badness makes her tick. But I hope she never grows out of it. She's so funny. I can't believe how different they all are. They're all individuals.
@@Forest_Friend
We had an orphan porcupine (Pokey), and my late husband put a tree in our front room for him. There was a small bucket-like pail tied to a little rope that he would pull up(claw over claw) to get the treats inside. I thought that was smart of him! He only did it a few times, however.
@@pokeybear1274 That's adorable!!! We've talked about getting a cat tree for Squeak to try out. If we do it, we'll have to try the treat pail too!
I love Squeak 🩷, there I said it 😝
Normally, I would be wondering if this was teething, but since porcupettes (& rodents in general) are born with permanent teeth…onto a new theory 😅
Occam’s razor- Squeak just wants a buddy to play with! NA Porcupines are almost always born as singletons & they’re solitary animals, though they do occasionally congregate, as we have seen on this channel (especially in the cold), porcupettes usually play a bit with their mamas…but since Spike is convinced Squeak is the spawn of 😈, perhaps Squeak is missing a play mate!
I bet Squeak wanted to play with you & Forest Friend but ah, the logistics is a bit tricky 🤭😂
Do you guys have access to the full Hazmat suits, so you can play with her?! 😂
Joel got me a puppet that I can use to play with Squeak fairly safely, but she can't run around with it as freely as with her Teddy and Quilly. Also, we noticed the orphaned porcupettes at Hope For Wildlife have wrestling matches too, and Pip used to try to wrestle Chonkers. Come to think of it, we first met Chonkers when he was playing with a bowl, kind of similar to what Squeak does.
Squeak just loves her teddy, I just think she is so adorable . She plays just like a domestic furbaby, but then again she is semi domesticated. 😊❤❤❤🐾🐾❤❤
Both very relatable and unfathomable at the same time.
Oh, and very cute.
食べた後は遊ぶ！
😍😍😍
We can learn so much from animals. Frankly we don't deserve them. All animals are capable of playtime. And it's a unique experience to watch it happen because only humans have that ability. I don't believe in a god per se. But you are doing "God's work".
As an animal rehabber myself of opossums I really enjoy these videos. I've had one wild and 5 babies. It's been the best experience of my life. I would be in heaven with these wild porcupines. Good on you.
Thank you, and thanks for helping our little opossum friends! We don't have those here.
@joels7605 the only marsupial indigenous to our country. They can resist snake venom. Can sustain over 100 bites from a rattle snake. Are all but immune to rabies. As a marsupial they have a lower than average body temperature in which the disease can not sustain itself. They have no natural defensess. None. When they "play opossum" and look like they're dead? That's a natural cardiovascular response. They literally pass out. Their blood pressure drops so low they feint. They literally FEINT. From fear. And in that state it can last from moments to hours. You can pick them up. Carry them around. Please always be kind. They kill over 4 thousand (potentially) disease carrying ticks a year. When they open their mouths and drool? And growl? Yeah. It's all a bluff. They are capable of biting and trust me that bite could totally mess you up. But. They're teeth and bite force is rarely used on humans it's literally there to eat the bones they need for calcium. Without calcium they can literally become bone brittle. Like the elderly. Unlike other animals they can digest bone. So. If you have opossums in your vicinity. Give them your chicken bones. Please don't feed them cat food. They require high calcium protein diets. Cat food is ok on occasion. Please don't hurt wildlife. That's the bottom line. Be kind.
@joels7605 opossums when in captivity (it happens) they imprint on their caregiver. I've had 3 that were totally wild and we let them right out. Sometimes they imprint on us. It happens with beavers and the famous porcupine Teddy. If they imprint. They can't live in the wild. My last opossum imprinted and Blossom was the little critter love of my life. Sadly. Opossums only live 2 years on average. Essentially the same as a rat. In the wild it's often less because of predation and accidents. If you come across an opossum road kill. Please check for babies.
Cuteness personified ❤❤❤
So cute, but its so sad to want to pet them but knowing you cant
You can pet her mother. You can touch the Squeak's belly. Not her back though. She doesn't like that.
She is so unique. Taking out all her aggression 9n that stuffed toy! lol
Cuteness overload 😍 💖
Squeak уже домашний дикобраз😊
Your floor looks like a farmers market with all the veggies. Little miss Missy is moving all of that around with her toy. Crazy baby❤
Squeak, you are soooooo adorable!! 😄😍♥️♥️♥️
Cuteness overload ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Is she trying to eat it or mother it?
What a cutie!
She's just wrestling. The babies will wrestle and play with each other.
@joels7605 OMG. 🥰
Squeak is so charismatic, such a star, such a darlin', and she loves her Teddy so very much. Is it because it has become a part of her; her smell; her mouth; even her fur? Or is it the family member she never had? Squeak always seemed so alienated from Spike, her Mother. But she and Teddy are together forever. Such is childhood love. Adorable Squeak and Teddy, you melt my heart. 💞💞
We're worried about what's going to happen when she finally shreds teddy. We've been looking for a similar teddy to replace it, but we can't find one. Hopefully she's not depressed.
Cue the "Great Teddy Search".
@@joels7605 Does it have the brand name on the attached tag in back?
@@Ruby-xn3po Dan Dee International! I didn't think to check the tag before, because we bought it in our local grocery store around Valentine's Day last year. Sadly, they don't seem to be stocking them this year.
@@Forest_Friend I found very similar ones on eBay. How tall is yours? It's difficult to tell. lol.
Awww Squeak, how adorable 🐻
Awe, sweet .
Is this porcupine motherhood behavior?
I'm not sure. Squeak is only 5-ish months old, and they're not supposed to have babies until they're 2 years old. Might be practice.
Does she ever try to take it outside so she can haul it off somewhere?
Not yet. I'm sure it'll happen though.
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Have you ever played tug of war with her when she bumps the toy into you? Or do you think she will skip the tug part and go straight to war?
Yes a bit. She'll pull back. There was a video recently where Squeak got into our groceries and started tugging on a bag of apples. That was kinda funny.
Repost?
@@womanishthing1997 I think it just looks similar.
What would happen if they accidentally bathed in nair
I think the results would be TERRIFYING.
For some reason today, you tube keeps deleting my comment🤷♀️❤
We all seem to have those days. A week or two ago, it was my turn to have all my comments disappear.
Strange🤷♀️❤@@Forest_Friend
Okay so get this. This is my channel which theoretically I have control over... and it deletes my comments ALL THE TIME.
Crazy! Maybe they think the words Quilbert, Spike, Pokey and Prickly are dangerous words😂😂❤@joels7605
@@Forest_Friend Strange.🤷♀️❤
That’s the well known Squeak she’s so unique ❤