One spring day earlier this year, Brooke Foth got an unusual text from her father: “I got you a porcupine.”

When that text, along with a photo, came through, she had an equally short response: “Best day ever!”

It may strike some people as odd, a father-daughter gift of a porcupine (and a dead one, at that), but a prickle of porcupines had become quite the pests around his farm, damaging things and gnawing the bark off of many of the trees.

So one man’s pest became another woman’s prized possession.

Months earlier, Foth had told her father she really wanted to get her hands on some Montana porcupine quills so she could make earrings from them for her jewelry line, 406Jewelry .

The problem is, porcupines are pretty tricky to track down, so after her father got his shot, so did his da

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