To me, animals both domestic and wild, have a certain innocence to them. They don't really understand how vulnerable they are in this world of humans, and how easily they can be hurt, their homes destroyed, their young taken or hurt, etc. etc. This small porcupine was making its slow way up a tree to safety and at this point was at eye level with me. It stopped and peered at me, and I noticed it had a leaky eye, no doubt from an injury or an infection, poor thing.