A goofy little pup wandered into the wrong cactus. He's healing now.

A coyote pup believed to be four to six weeks old is recovering at the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, after being found covered head to tail in hundreds of Cholla cactus spines. Staff called it one of the worst cactus encounters they had seen. The pup was discovered in Surprise, Arizona, and when the call came in, veterinary technician Berkeley Martineau knew it would be a long day. "He had spines just about everywhere," Martineau said. "There were spines in the nose, mouth, tongue, tail, and back; it was everywhere." Some had gone through an ear. Rescuers sedated the pup lightly and pulled the spines out one by one, a procedure that lasted more than two hours. A week later, the coyote is eating well and starting to socialize with other orphaned pups. Martineau has a theory about how it happened. "It was probably a goofy little coyote who stumbled into the wrong cactus."