Baby Coyote Trapped in Hundreds of Cactus Spines Is Freed by Rescuers

The three-pound coyote pup — about 4 weeks old — appeared frozen. He was covered in hundreds of cholla cactus spines from nose to tail and could not move.

A homeowner in Surprise, Arizona, found the baby coyote alone in their yard, with no sign of his mother nearby. The pup had likely collided with a cholla, and its spines — barbed like fishhooks — were embedded across his face, legs, stomach and paws. The homeowner called the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation facility in Scottsdale, and a volunteer was dispatched to collect him.

"To that little guy, I'm sure it was a very sharp pain," said Berk Martineau, a veterinary technician at the center.

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