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.

Halfcalf, funny you should have just said that - after I'd turned off last night I remembered a friend whose lawn was being wrecked by badgers. She was advised to mix honey and peanuts and smear it into a bit of old log.

The badgers really do come along, snuffle it out and then go on their way on without digging any more.

It's a badger conspiracy. They'll demand your car keys next.

A lot of animals dislike citrus. I've been advised to put orange peel about te garden to deter next door's posh cats. They obviously haven't heard that they don't like it.

Don't get me started on cats.
They are driving our dogs insane. We are going to put up electric mesh fencing to keep them out. Failing that, I will find myself accidently buying my children jet powered water pistols and spud guns and forget to admonish them when they connect with feline targets.
Why do cats never crap in their own gardens?

Water pistols are very effective, and cause no harm. Alas, next doors cats are unphased by my leaping out from behind the greenhouse with a super soaker. Their total lack or arsedness usually takes the wind out of my sails and I manage barely a dribble.

I think there have been cases of dogs not crapping in their own gardens?

My neighbours have my blessing to fire at will (with water, obvviously) at my cat if she craps or somesuch in their garden.

Even more effective than a water pistol is a really arsey chicken. ASBO Chicken has duffed up many a feline interloper.

I'm not a fan of badgers. They're rude, stripy and angry looking. Probably so huge because they're full of worms.

Years ago my Husband hit one in his pride and joy BMW. It did over £2k of damage to the body work! (I also seem to remember it bounced the roof of the car and removing the spoiler that wasn't there before the accident....)

Good point TurkeyBurgerthing, - badgers roaming around the countryside deliberately flinging themselves at cars is one of the great scourges of our time.

Yeah, and bloody deer.

All those badgers you see on the side of the road - they're failed carjackers.

Badgers and foxes are lovely, although an urban fox cull is desperately overdue, rabbits, pet or otherwise, are bitey, scratchy horrible little bastards who trash the land and who should all be in pies!

There's actually a new website where you can see all incidents of cri9me and ASB committed by badgers on all streets in the UK. Pretty frightening stuff.

Incidentally, as far as I can see, good reasons for killing badgers:

• they spread disease to livestock

Bad reasons for killing badgers:

• They bite (Shit! Really?)
• They kill bunny rabbits (sad, but its a dog eat dog world, and some rabbits can be the size of large dogs).
• They mess up lawns (my nephew messes up our lawn by playing football when he comes over - do people think I should tell my sister before I cull him or explain my decision afterwards?)

I hit a pheasant once in my old Renault Clio. Not only did it dent my bonnet, it also made off with my Renault badge. I stopped and hunted all around for that damn pheasant but it was long gone.
I fondly imagine it stalking the fields of England prouldy displaying it's "I took on a Renault and won" badge in the form of my car's badge.

Could be that we are the big ugly killing machines, pushing our way into the territory of these wild animals.

Then getting in a piss because, they get in our way, kill our lovely fluffy bunnies and ruin our carefully manicured gardens...

deepheat, lol, I think you should warn her first.

Speak for yourself Greenkit.
My garden is most certainly NOT carefully manicured.

I had a pheasant fly into my bathroom window once, unfortunately it died despite my efforts to revive it so I could cull it for its hooligan ways.

I'm interested to hear that badgers are rude, do they flash their bits at passing motorists, or is it just a case of shouting 'fuck off' when they dent cars?

I love Badgers. I dread seeing dead ones by the side of the road because it makes me cry and then I look like shite.

I think I might start a badger sanctuary.

My MIL ran over a badger a few years ago. Once with the front wheel, then again with the back wheel. She stopped the car and said, 'Oooh, I hope I haven't hurt it'. Luckily my DH was in the car to physically restrain her from going out to check. Its ghost might have been a bit bitey.

Anyone using the expression "daddy-bunny" surely cannot expect to be taken 100% seriously.

chickens

They're also moody bastards. I appreciate their grumpy-arsed spirit.

Never, ever try to appreciate their grumpy-arsed spirit .... they really don't like you doing that.

I'm a badger survivor, I still get flashbacks.

// It has been 11 years and 19 days since my last badger encounter...doh wrong site//

So we can only protect animals that are cute and cuddly and don't upset you then OP?