Here is amusing footage showing a porcupine breaking into a house and causing havoc until it was captured in Sumatra, Indonesia on October 3.
A Sumatran porcupine breaks into a policeman's house in Indonesia. When caught, the thorny animal ran back and forth up and down the stairs, making the residents of the house panicked.
Footage filmed in Bukittinggi City, West Sumatra Province, today (October 3), shows the Sumatran porcupine on the stairs between the ground floor and the first floor.
The arrest effort was dramatic, with neighbors standing guard outside the door, while civil service police officers, who had come to assist with the arrest, climbed the stairs to get closer to the porcupine.
But it jumped back down to the ground. There the porcupine was almost caught but escaped to run to the toilet.
The occupants of the house who saw the porcupine go into the toilet were happy, they thought that rescuers would easily catch the porcupine in the narrow space.
The officers managed to get the porcupine into the box, but the endemic animal easily got out of the box and ran to the corner.
The porcupine kept on saving himself from capture, he even went up the stairs to chase away the family who were lined up to watch there.
The police owner of the house, Adjunct First Inspector Atma Putra, while protecting himself with a prayer rug, slowly drove the porcupine down the stairs until it was cornered.
There the officer easily covered the porcupine with the box, then pushed the box into a corner, but the careless officer made the porcupine come back out of the box. Luckily the porcupine can easily be caught again.
"We put the porcupine in the barrel. We have reported this to the animal lover community. They usually will immediately release their porcupine habitat away from the population,” Aiptu Putra added.
The porcupine catcher, Nov Rial, said the hedgehog was thought to have come from the surrounding hills. "This is the first time I've caught a Sumatran porcupine, so I'm still scared. I'm afraid the porcupine will shoot its thorns but it won't," said Rial.
Sumatran porcupine is active at night. In Indonesia, this species is not a protected species. Lives in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra Island, nesting in small caves, under fallen trees and stumps, among rocks, and in small burrows.
Hunting is still a major threat to the life of Sumatran porcupines, in addition to habitat disturbance. Sumatran porcupines are still being hunted because there is still an assumption that these animals can cure diseases. There are bidding hedgehogs at a price of Rp500.000 ($32) per kilogram.