I've got a funny porcupine story, happened to my colleague Heather.
She has this beautiful apple tree that must be 60 years old. One day a family of porcupines (a dad, a mom and a baby) occupied this tree and started eating the leaves and tree barks. The tree was slowing dying. Heather was so worried, she used so many different ways to scare them away: hung her stokings filled with dog hair (yes she also has 2 dogs, one chocolate brown Labrador named Hershy and one mix of hound and lab named Chivas); tied up dog rings on the tree hoping that the sound would spook the porcupines... Her room-mate Don even borrowed a sling-shot from their neighbor.
One night, they heard the bell ringing, so our dear Heather screamed "Donnnnnnnnnnn" while Don stormingly camed downstairs with his sling-shot and started firing pebble stones at the porcupines. The end was so sad: Don managed to break 2 of their windows while the porcupines leisurely walked away. :lol:
Finally Don got a shot-gun. But before the gun was used, Heather found a way to keep the porcupines away from her beloved apple tree on the Internet: put up a fence made of Aluminium around the tree so that it's so slippery and the porcupines simple can't climb it! And...................it worked great! From that time on, every time we party at Heather's, we pay our most humble tribute to the tin tree.
The end.