Here is a regular nighttime visitor to our garden. Will come to within a couple of feet of the front door. The badger is surprisingly big and muscular. A few times we have had standoffs in the garden. Stopping a badger attack on a hedgehog or when the badger has decided to try and dismantle the bird feeder. The badger stands his or her ground. Definitely chased me off a couple of times. Clearly no regard is given to vegetarians. In my defence I am a city boy and a massive coward. Wasps send me scurrying for cover.
But now I find the The Badger has no musical taste. Last night I forgot that I had left a delivery outside. Our son likes deliveries to air outside for at least a few hours as part of our pandemic protocols. Anyway I had bought myself a really cheap second hand cd and a brush. I was in the kitchen cleaning up when I heard a right racket outside. Had to be the badger. I assumed the bird feeder had been destroyed again. But no. The delivery packaging was strewn all over the lawn. No sign of the brush but near the bird feeder was my cd. Clearly The Badger had no interest in taking my music.
Not liking Alice Cooper. What a philistine.
That depends on which Alice Cooper record it was. 😁
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Welcome to my nightmare.
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Stupid badger! 😉
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He did get the cling film off the cd so he did help.
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I haven’t seen one of these yet, but our neighbors dog dug up a mole the other day, and we saved it (my son’s girlfriend had never seen one and scooped it up with a cardboard box and took it to an adjacent empty lot). It quickly burrowed into the sand and was gone. ❤️😉
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Never seen one of those. Bet it was quite small. 😊
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It was.
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🙏
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It was similar to a mouse but with no eyes and long clear claws
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Was it easy to catch.
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Not to bad, I think maybe because it was stunned from the dog.
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Bet it was a real eye opener
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My lord, that is a beast. I would not tangle with that. We have all sorts of wildlife in our garden but this far no badgers. As for not liking Alice Cooper , plainly has never heard the song, ‘ badger’s out for the summer..’.
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BAD badger!!! BAAAAADDD!!
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Thank God, Alice Cooper survived!!
What an animal this is. Wow!!
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Mighty scary close up. That’s the badger not Alice.
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😱
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🙏
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It clearly needs the brush, but has zero taste in music! We get opposums… they are ugly but harmless. We also have rats, not NY City sewer rats, but a pain in the posterior nonetheless. You’d think with two cats and Dogzilla, all the wildlife would skedaddle… shows how ferocious the pets are, eh?🤣🤣🤣
💌💌💌
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Have you tried them on music ? xxxx
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Check to see if the badger is well-groomed the next time he makes an appearance. The brush has then been put to good use 🙂
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I would hope so. Maybe some nail clippers next time.
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he look a bit mad lol maybe you woke him up with AC 😉or he’s into soft music 😬
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Looks like a punk rocker to me. 😀
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That would scare the life out of me if I discovered it at my back door
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Surely not x
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a badger but when we were living our in the country in Ontario I had a few run-ins with raccoons. (Do you have raccoons in the U.K.?) They can be quite large, at least the ones I am thinking of were quite big. Yeah I ran away a couple of times too. Beggars were trying to get in the house and I was once woken up by one scratching on the window screen. Scared the dickens out of me.
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No don’t get them unless in a zoo. Definitely scare me.
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😀😀😀🤗
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Many would like to divorce there family
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Like to see the local badgers here, but luckily so far they haven’t tried to come into our garden.
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Too busy in ours.
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He/she looks mean and is big.
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Most definitely
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🙀
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😀
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Awwwwwwwww, it needs a little suit,lol
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Most definitely does x
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I thought it was a skunk as I have not seen a striped badger before. Thanks for showing me as where I live, we do not have badgers or skunks. Thankfully.
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Your welcome
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Amazing shot of the badger
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Thank you sir.
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ha ha… needed the brush to comb his hair?
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Most definitely
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I wouldn’t take on a badger either, although in defense of a hedgehog, maybe. I challenged a raccoon last summer as it attacked a blind, deaf old possum. Of course I didn’t realize at the time it was rabid. Fortunately I scare raccoons as well as babies.
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So far we don’t have rabies in the country.
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😄😄😄 that’s hilarious!!
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Thank you
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Well that badger does not know what good music is🤷🏽♀️
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Certainly doesn’t
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😂
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😂
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You are wise to keep your distance. Those guys are mean!!! 💕
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Definitely look like it.
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Would love to see a badger in tbe garden but not so sure about being chased by one. Wasps freak me out too.
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Definitely big claws.
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What a brilliant picture!
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Thank you 🙏
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😀 I suppose he’ll be looking well-groomed when you see him next.
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Hope so…
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Perhaps his tastes run more to The Animals. (Sorry. I couldn’t resist) Did you know they can burrow through concrete?
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It probably does 😀
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Note to self: Do NOT send Basler Läckerli. 🦡
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