Watch the amazing video below of Gertie removing the quills from Wilfred's face.

So it is not too surprising that a wounded raven would be intelligent and trusting enough to approach some people that he thought would be able to help him.This was exactly the case when a young raven fledgling visited Gertie Cleary's Nova Scotia home last month. The raven had just borne the brunt of a porcupine attack, and was clearly reaching out to Gertie for help in extracting the painful quills that were attached to its face.Her daughter was there also at the time and caught the amazing incident on camera and then uploaded it to YouTube. According to the Clearys, the bird, which the family named Wilfred, stuck around for a day after the "operation" before flying away completely.Hope for Wildlife director Hope Swinimer commended Gertie Cleary on her actions, adding that Wilfred the raven would not have survived without her help. Gertie Cleary compared the experience to helping a child with a splinter. " When you pull a splinter out, they holler and screech and pull their hand away," she said.