Watch as a Saskatchewan woman saves the day for a perplexed porcupine

A Saskatchewan girl’s serving to hand — or window scraper — has gone viral this week, with a video displaying her help a beleaguered porcupine garnering greater than 1.2 million views on Fb.

Raelene Prieb lives between Yorkton and Melville. She was on her method residence on Monday when she noticed a porcupine in a turtle-like state, on its again and unable to rise up. 

Prieb instructed CBC Radio’s The Morning Version she knew immediately she wanted to provide the clumsy creature a hand.

“I’ll have to assist him, clearly. He is having a very unhealthy Monday,” she stated.

Somewhat than choose the prickly rodent up along with her palms, she as a substitute grabbed her window scraper. The porcupine grabbed on and managed to roll over. When the porcupine was upright, it regarded on the snowbank, which had presumably felled it. It tried to scale it.

“I did not know if I ought to kinda push him up [the snowbank],” Prieb stated. “I did not actually wish to contact him.”

The critter’s try didn’t go effectively and it tumbled again onto its bottom. Prieb as soon as once more helped it up, then used the identical scraper to clear a path via the snowbank, permitting the animal to lastly get on its merry method.

When Prieb obtained residence, she uploaded the video to her Fb profile unedited, unaware that the settings for the video had been set to public.

The video blew up.

At one level, she excitedly instructed her daughter that it had greater than 5,000 views. It has since eclipsed 1.2 million.

As for why she thinks the video is so well-liked, she stated persons are drawn to a feel-good story.

“Folks have to see compassion and mercy and style on the market,” Prieb stated.