OT: Badger!

davek said:

Some oaf just knocked down a badger outside the end of our drive,
leaving it crippled but still alive and Not Happy. Much drama ensued -
we had to call out Badgerwatch to come and take it away!

Reminds me of seeing a badger at the side of the road a few years back.
It was clearly dead, so rather than phoning the SSPCA, BadgerWatch or
whoever, I phoned the local taxidermist (a friend of my parents). He
hopped in his car and went to pick it up, only to find it was gone.
Obviously it didn't agree with my opinion on its state of health.

Graeme

Graeme Dods said the following on 24/05/2006 02:12:

Quoted message said:

Obviously it didn't agree with my opinion on its state of health.

....or another taxidermist beat him to it!

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Paul Boyd said:

Graeme Dods said the following on 24/05/2006 02:12:

Quoted message said:

Obviously it didn't agree with my opinion on its state of health.

...or another taxidermist beat him to it!

Yeah, they're pretty thick on the ground round those parts 🙂

Graeme

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Quoted message said:

Some oaf just knocked down a badger outside the end of our drive, leaving
it crippled but still alive and Not Happy. Much drama ensued - we had to
call out Badgerwatch to come and take it away!

Don't know if it will survive, but at least we now know who has been
digging up our lawn.

Deep Wales, and came around a corner with a mate in the car. Screeched to a
halt, and a badger with a broken back was struggling across the road. A
farmers wife turned up on the other side of the road and said we needed to
put it out of its misery. Being townies, this was a bit of a tough one to
ask. Horrified we watched her with a big stick for the next few minutes.

(get out clause ... I was still in the car watching the road behind when my
friend had the conversation, not me).

elyob said:

A
farmers wife turned up on the other side of the road and said we needed to
put it out of its misery. Being townies, this was a bit of a tough one to
ask. Horrified we watched her with a big stick for the next few minutes.

When the woman knocked on our door last night to tell us there was an
injured badger outside our drive, my first thought was to go and fetch a
spade to finish the job, but then she started going on about calling the
vet... animal lovers, tch!

d.

Badgers are unbelievably tough and will survive horrific injuries. We
found a recently hit one a few years ago (the callous b*st*rd who hit
it had obviously driven off and left it writhing around in the middle
of the road). After a few phone calls, and a while guarding it from
other traffic, the local animal rescue folk came out; they said badgers
almost always survive if not killed by the impact. A word of caution -
even the most apparently moribund injured badger can do you serious
injury if you try to help it, so leave it to the experts (who used long
poles, nooses, stout wire cages, etc.)

--
Peter Headland