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Original poster

Badgers are vermin and shouldn't be so bloody be protected

137 replies

Vagabond · 03/02/2011 22:01

Badgers are huge and ugly bastards. We've had one in our garden for the last two nights who killed our daddy-bunny and who has now breached our best enclosure to take our babies too. You should see these beasts. Size of a big dog and bloody frightening. I always thought Badgers would be cute and snuggly - NOT - they're ugly beasts who don't deserve the protection they get. They spread TB, they kill chickens, bunnies and all sorts of garden animals and all they seem to contribute is mass murder and digging great, big holes in your garden.

I loathe the creatures.

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mrsjoyfulprize · 03/02/2011 22:02

hmm they are bitey fuckers it's true.

AgentZigzag · 03/02/2011 22:03

Not trying to wind anyone up are you?

You might be entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is bollocks and full of shite.

Honeydragon · 03/02/2011 22:03

UABU, it is fair that they are protected

but

UANBU, are pita vicious murdering bastards who hold you to ransome in your own home.

mutznutz · 03/02/2011 22:04

A big dog pmsl? What, like a Rottweiler or something?

Honeydragon · 03/02/2011 22:04

ransom

traceybath · 03/02/2011 22:05

Ever wondered why you see so many at the side of the road?

AgentZigzag · 03/02/2011 22:05

Yes, I'll give it that they're bitey fuckers, good description, wild animal bitey fuckers.

PaisleyLeaf · 03/02/2011 22:06

It's your responsibility to keep your bunnies safe. Otherwise, if it's not a badger it'll be a dog/cat/mink whatever that gets them.
It's winter, a difficult time for animals trying to survive. If you leave rabbits out for them they'll have them.
Same as if you keep chickens, you'll attract foxes - and it's down to you to have them in a secure pen.

Vallhala · 03/02/2011 22:10

Badgers are the size of big dogs?

The day I go into my garden and find a badger the size of my German Shepherds I'll start worrying.

Until then, well, you can believe what you want to believe.

mutznutz · 03/02/2011 22:13

They're the size of big dogs according to the OP Vallhala...lmao!

Vallhala · 03/02/2011 22:14

{{ Just for you, Vagabond]]

Vallhala · 03/02/2011 22:14
Jellykat · 03/02/2011 22:15

Many animals carry TB!

YABVVU and you are talking bollocks!

curlymama · 03/02/2011 22:15

Can't you just keep your rabbits more securely? It sounds like you are the one at fault for losing the second lot if you had just had a warning of what could happen.

Honeydragon · 03/02/2011 22:17

Having inadvertently stumbled across and therefore annoyed a large male badger I would like to confirm that they are not the nice of a rottweiler. This much I observed before running away like stink.

Apparently the shy and retiring woodland creature aspect is somewhat negated when you practically tread on one Grin

pointythings · 03/02/2011 22:20

Honeydragon,

If someone practically trod on you, how would you respond?

Don't blame the badger (or adder, or anything else for that matter)

And if you are in badger territory, you need to protect your bunnies. Nature red in tooth and claw, you know.

MosEisley · 03/02/2011 22:21

YABU. Badgers have a tough struggle to survive. Rabbits are everywhere.

And I speak as someone whose newly laid lawn has been dug up by a badger three times in a row. Yes it is a PITA but one of those things.

ThatVikRinA22 · 03/02/2011 22:23

people are huger, (even bigger than a big dog) uglier and do far more damage

so yabu.

SoupDragon · 03/02/2011 22:24

PMSL @ "large dog" sized badgers.

I would tentatively agree about some of the protection aspects though. It cost my parents thousands to get the set in their garden fenced in (underground, to stop the tunnelling) and they had lots of hassle getting the correct permissions for this work plus the one way gates on the sett. It should be easier to get urban badgers moved.

Urban badgers, being the size of large dogs, all drive 4x4s BTW.

Honeydragon · 03/02/2011 22:25

My earlier post was tongue in check for the second part pointy, sorry.

Believe me I was a damn site more surprised than the badger, I'd always been told that they can smell you a mile away.

I literally turned the corner and was a foot away. I am well aware that he was being a badger, but I wasn't going to hang around and apologize for disturbing him!

It can be hard also if you already have animals and they move in for a while, as its a bit like having squatters with rights, but as I said, its correct that they are protected.

southeastastra · 03/02/2011 22:26

i love badgers how on earth could they be vermin

ffs all local animals are going

we'll just be left with rats

pointythings · 03/02/2011 22:29

Fair enough, Honeydragon, I'd have been pretty startled too!

Honeydragon · 03/02/2011 22:30
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Vagabond · 03/02/2011 22:32

You wouldn't LMAO if you saw the size of the badgers in our garden. They are huge.

Why should I have to go to extreme measures to protect my pets in enclosures in my garden from these vermin? If they were rats I would be laying traps - why are these vermin protected? I hate the fuckers. And they are HUGE.
BTW, I live in the Badger capital of the world.....I've even had a badger botherer come and give me advice but he was of a leftie type so.....

I guess nature rules. Circle of life....

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LittleMissHissyFit · 03/02/2011 22:32

YY Back off the Badgers!