Jared Buzzell saw the car in front of him hit a porcupine.
Buzzell’s first reaction was to hop out of his car and ascertain whether it was alive. After discovering that it was dead, Buzzell cut open the porcupine to look for a valuable mineral deposit called a bezoar stone that his uncle told him formed in the stomach of porcupines.
But instead of a bezoar, Buzzell found a baby porcupine inside. There was only one thing to do: take it home and nurse it back to health with his daughter’s baby-doll bottle.
The “porcupette” is now at the Buzzell family apartment in Lisbon, Maine, where the family is feeding it baby formula to help it regain its strength, according to WMTW. Buzzell says they then plan to hand the “adorable” animal to a wildlife rehabilitator, much to the dismay of his wife, who wants to keep it.