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

[Vagabond]

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.

Better hope you are not in a proposed cull area then ruddybin!

I don't think we are, but if the Badgers don't get there the foxes aren't far behind them.

I think your Badgers may be mutant Badgers, they are not meant to be as big as a rotweiller. You should phone the X-Men or something.

We had a Badger once for a few hours, my Dad hit him with his car and felt awful so brought him home to care for him while he waited for an animal hospital to collect him. He was a normal sized Badger though.

I think you will find that there is no conclusive evidence that badgers spread TB.
And proper standard sized Dachshunds are about the same size as a badger!

I know ruddy

Please check to find out,and if you are, there may be a local action group..

Seriously..who in their right mind would think badgers are 'cute & snuggly'?

Heck, I love the bitey fuckers but I wouldn't hug one. I tried hugging a rabbit once. It nearly had my arm off..

The Badger Trust

There are various local action groups and rescues too. And no, there is no conclusive proof that badgers are responsible for the TB issue.

Save the badger (Wales)

So, this large dog sized creature who ate your rabbits...

Sure it wasn't a large dog?

Badgers need protection, so did your rabbits. Put them somewhere more secure.

It is people feeding badgers (or foxes) food waste that exercerbate the problem. They encourage these wild animals in with the lure of easy food. Next night, aforementioned badger hits next door, finds himself a rabbit and then his card is marked. Not because he is in the wrong - the animal kingdom is all about kill or be killed - but because he had been given a false sense of self by being encouraged in onto human territory in the first place.
Like those poor London kids who got savaged by foxes last summer.

The sadness in all this is the lines between wil animal and human territory have got blurred - and now pet rabbits (or babies in cots) will pay the price.

Moral of the tale- don't feed wild animals on your patch when there could be repurcussions.

Oh for God's sake. Lovely attitude - let's exterminate every animal we don't find cute cuddly and sociable. Let's kill every predator - after all the world would be a safer place.

And then we can show our grandchildren pictures of all the animals and birds and fish there used to be which they will never see.

yes lets kill all our natural wildlife so the op can keep leetle bunny wunny's in cages in her garden.

I like our badgers, even though they dig up the lawn. My dairy farmer friends don't believe they spread TB (or at least aren't the main spreaders).

What I don't like however is that we have no hedgehogs. This is because there are so many bastard badgers and badgers eat hedgehogs, discarding their prickly coat like a burger wrapper :(

They're the only thing (apparently) that can (or can be arsed to) uncurl a rolled up hedgehog.

Badgers are bitey fuckers. They're also moody bastards. I appreciate their grumpy-arsed spirit. Sorry OP, but if you keep pets in the garden it's your responsibility to make sure that they don't become an all-you-can-eat buffet

I don't think you're unreasonable to be upset, of course it's distressing to lose your pets. But the badger's only do what comes naturally. If you intend to keep on keeping rabbits, it might be best to bring them in at night from hereonin.

Badgers are buggers for going straight through fences, that's why they had to put in badger-doors to the rabbit-fence on the local country estate. Otherwise they just wreck the fence.

stray apostrophe

We do have hedgehogs. They sit on the lawn and eat roast potatoes really loudly

Badgers eat rabbits and chickens.

Such is the way of life.

If you choose to own animals with predators, be prepared for them to be killed.

YABVU. I would love to have badgers in my garden. I have never seen a live badger. Unfortunately I saw one seconds after it was killed on the road recently.

Interesting that people say that it is the pet owners responsibility to keep their pets safe in the garden, but when I posted a while ago about my spaniel jumping over a low fence into a garden with a duck pond upon which were ducks which must have had their wings clipped as they couldn't fly, I was flamed for not being in control of my dog (not saying I wasn't wrong by the way, but I just felt that if you were going to keep flightless birds you should perhaps have a higher fence).

I'd love a badger that eats cats to come to our garden and sort out -7-- reduce next doors cats for us.
We buried a badger once, DH and I were walking home from a friends house when we heard a big bang. We came across a dead badger. DH went back to friends house and got a black bin bag and we put the badger into it. It was huge, luckily we were pissed so didn't feel the weight. The police stopped us and we showed them what we had. They ended up taking us the mile or so we had left to walk.
The next day I made DH dig a hole in the garden for Badger. It was huge.

The dog is your responsibility coatgate, as the bunnies are the OP's. It's a pet.

They are also noisy fuckers.

I sometimes have to stick my head out the window of a summer's night to tell them to button it. The youngsters brawl on our patio - growly, brawly badgers chucking gravel all over the place.

I do love them though.

I know you're not supposed to feed them, but when my neighbours put out peanuts for them they tend to leave the lawns alone.

But the dog is your pet coatgate, not a wild animal. If a fox or badger scoffs my hens, that's my problem. If your dog got in to my garden because you weren't in control of it and scoffed them, I'd be very pissed.

Jenai, the bitey fuckers are running a protection racket in your neighbourhood

kreecher our cats (my one moggy and my neighbour's pride/herd/troupe) and the badgers seem to coexist quite happily. Sorry!

I agree with ariesgirl. We have hunted and destroyed the habitats of most of our native wildlife. Badgers largely eat earthworms (this is why they dig up lawns, and why my MIL wishes death upon them) and it is when food is scarce they will go after other easy targets. People who have problems with lawn destruction (not actual sets in their gardens) are advised to scatter peanuts so they won't bother digging up the lawn. I think it was Chris Packham I saw giving this advice on tv?

I do feel sad for your bunnies and think some people have been a bit harsh and unsympathetic as I am sure you tried really hard to protect them.

This definitely looks like a serious case of NIMBY!