unwanted badger digging up our garden

tori.k

i love the romantic ideas of those that live in the city
Badgers are thick as too short, planks bless em, worse then cats if they get in your bins, and there poop is really nasty, its like tar as stinks to the heavens and is a sod to get off the dog, they make a racket worse then rabbits and once they decide your garden is worth a nightly visit they never leave they will happy bust thru fence like its butter and they can be really nasty, it wouldnt think twice about killing you cat if its daft enough to get in its way.
on the plus side it will eat the slugs the plants will be destroyed but your be slug free

Paradigm

tori.k wrote: »

i love the romantic ideas of those that live in the city
Badgers are thick as too short, planks bless em, worse then cats if they get in your bins, and there poop is really nasty, its like tar as stinks to the heavens and is a sod to get off the dog, they make a racket worse then rabbits and once they decide your garden is worth a nightly visit they never leave they will happy bust thru fence like its butter and they can be really nasty, it wouldnt think twice about killing you cat if its daft enough to get in its way.
on the plus side it will eat the slugs the plants will be destroyed but your be slug free

Someone with experience of them?

Can be nasty little critters. They have skin like toughened leather & the power of their bite is scary, surprising for an animal that eats mainly worms, slugs & insects although they will eat carrion!

Cats are no match for a Badger &, to be honest, most pet dogs aren't either!!

Badger baiters tend to break their jaws (& the odd limb or two) to make it a fair??? fight.

Don't feed them & if you have pets keep them in when the Badgers are around. Hopefully they will exhaust the worms & go somewhere else.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Paradigm wrote: »

Can be nasty little critters.

Hmm quite a number of the human species come to mind here :rolleyes:

Paradigm

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »

Hmm quite a number of the human species come to mind here :rolleyes:

Yep, you got that right :mad:

PolishBigSpender

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »

Wow, I would love badgers visiting my garden, certainly wouldn't have a problem feeding them. They are a rare & amazing sight & I would feel extremely privilaged to see them in my garden.

I feel exactly the same, they are wonderful creatures! I've seen one very close one night, pulling out worms out of lawn after rain. It looked like it was eating spagetthi!

Whatever you do, DON'T KILL IT!!

HelenYorkshire

Seems to be a common problem - the Badger Trust has this leaflet: http://www.badger.org.uk/_Attachments/Resources/55_S4.pdf

Hope it helps

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Do the same as most people who don't like wild animals being wild. Lay concrete.

Patrick20

did nobody see this on bbc breakfast a wee while ago? They are supposedly looking for worms in your garden so you scatter peanuts in your garden they eat them instead and they leave your garden alone.

melbury

We have badgers in and through our garden every night. We have lost a few large bushes/shrubs because they eat the roots and our lawn always has scratched up parts on it.

Our dog goes mad when he goes out for his last wee, as obviously they are about. I get quite scared because a friend's dog was very seriously hurt by a badger, really ripped into it - they have razor sharp claws and teeth. Vet had to just about sew the dog up:eek:

So if any of you would like these badgers, you are welcome.