Mackenzie the stowaway porcupine flown home for release in northern B.C.
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The spiny creature found itself in Kelowna earlier this week, after the wreckage of a plane it had nested in was transported to the Okanagn from northern B.C.
A stowaway porcupine that made an accidental trip across British Columbia was returned home in style on Friday.
The spiny creature found itself in Kelowna earlier this week, after the wreckage of a plane it had nested in was transported to the Okanagan from northern B.C.
That’s when workers with a salvage company found the spiky little creature stressed, dehydrated and wedged between two of the aircraft’s seats.
Since then, Mackenzie the porcupine has been recovering in the care of the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Summerland.
“We’re very happy that we’re able to bring the porcupine back where it belongs, and it is part of our mission to release the animals back where they were found. That’s really how it should be,” said Eva Hartmann with the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society.
On Friday, she got the royal treatment.
A private plane flew into Penticton Regional Airport to pick her up, care of the volunteer wildlife transport organization Big to the Rescue.
She was bundled up securely for the flight home to the wilds just north of Mackenzie — the community she was named for.
