My kids' dad fed them badger

[Loulamummy]

I'm not joking. We are separated and he sees them for the day once every few weeks. Last week he took them for the day in London and when I picked them up they told me, very casually, that Daddy had given them badger with rice for lunch. He had sent me a picture a few days earlier of a dead badger so it is totally plausible, and given that he has been homeless for the last couple of years and often 'lives off the land' I am certain he would not think twice about eating a badger. He told the kids that he steamed the meat for 4hrs but now i'm really worried about the whole TB thing. They seem fine but not sure if I should get them checked out. Any words of wisdom?

So in short- I think this is a genuine case of hairy paws for lunch- not hairy hands

Sheep I lived on a boat too. Hence knowing roadkill eaters !

Your ex DH comes from the same school as our next door neighbours who welcomed us to the area with a housewarming present of a couple of partridge in a bloodied plastic bag with the warning to "mind your teeth in case you find any lead shot in them"

@SirVix

Funny isn’t it, how they go hand in hand...

I’m off the boats for a bit while I get DS through the kamikaze years (we had a trad pair that were lovely, but hard work with a toddler- too much engine room and back cabin, not enough floor space and soft furnishings

Can’t wait to get back to sloe picking and , er, badger steaming, when he’s a bit bigger

My ex gave this to my DD recently. Ear and tail replaced with real rabbit ear and tail!

Had to log in to say our badgers go wild for cheesecake and will wrestle a turkey carcass off the bird table.

^^Pray tell, where do you live?

Can't understand why some people think homeless people don't have mobile phones.

^^

Yes, what an odd conclusion to come to

What the actual fuck with that bunny?!?!

I know he’s had a bit of a time of it, but that’s fucking macabre?!

That bunny is horrible ☹️

The bunny is scary. Eating road kill is one thing but giving it to a child to play with is wrong? And I’m sure it’s likely to attract flies?

Fuck me - that rabbit 😱😱

Actually I keep looking at it, and thinking I
A) quite like the aesthetic - and wondering if there’s an artsy market for that sort of macabre shit
B) wondering if your ex is Sid from Toy Story grown up
And
C) If A is something I should be worried about

Yes you can charge your phone in the library. Just use a pc and plug it into the usb. Same way I charge my phone at work so it doesn’t die at the gym.

I wonder if bodger needs some special food? Or will the sett menu be ok?

We too have badger birdtable trouble. They come for our all you can eat slug buffet around the garden, which is great. Unfortunately they've also wrecked 2 hefty birdtables, hoiking themselves up to get the raisins, fatballs, nuts and seeds. They are good climbers, scrambling with ease over our stone walls. When it's quiet at night we can sometimes hear them snuffling, chomping and scratching on our front steps, just by the door - a favourite slug stop. When I go out to the car or bin in the dark, we sometimes surprise eachother.

Never offered them cheesecake though. Too busy eating that myself.

Loulamummy isn't it going off? The ear, I mean.

The tail is like fur on a hat I suppose. I don't agree with fur but if it's been killed for food and going to waste, logic says why not, I suppose.

But the ear is pretty freaky. And won't it go bad?

What did you say when he presented it?! Do the kids play with it?

Holy fuck! That rabbit is all kinds of wrong. This thread just went from hilarious to horrid in one post.

You can break into people’s houses to charge your phone

What's your point?

If you found yourself homeless, would you chose to charge your phone by:

a. nipping into a library (if one still exists near you that is)
b. using a wind up or solar powered charger
c. charging it in your vehicle if you have one
d. breaking into someone's fucking house

Would you chose option d, waxy1? Seriously? Why would you think someone else would do this?

I was all sett to say that I hear Badgens supermarket has a new range coming out...

But then I saw the rabbit and I'm completely grossed out. Doesn't it go off?
Also, I'd agree go to GP in case, I don't want to scare you but aren't there some pretty serious types of food poisoning with long incubations that they might be able to test for and treat before they took hold?

Did/does no one else keep a dead rabbits foot in their pocket for good luck. Perfectly normal as far as I remember.

Wtf is with that rabbit that's surely got to be a sign of a psychopath 😭😂

I quite like the rabbit. DD thinks it's cool, much better than a pink cutsie toy. I certainly wouldn't want a younger child to have it but she just displays it and washes her hands after touching it. Apparently it was hung/dried out for a long time beforehand. She also has a necklace with a rabbit's foot on it. Didn't everyone have one of those in the 70s?

It just looks so weird because it doesn't look weird if that makes sense? Like he's replaced it with the right parts so it looks anatomically correct but just...wrong 😂

I had a fur stole as a kid. Not sure if it was Fox or stout, but it belonged to some ancient great aunty. Its paws were in the wrong place (cos it was a stole) and its little head fascinated me.

I'm vegetarian now, btw.

Won't it rot though??

Wtf is with that rabbit that's surely got to be a sign of a psychopath

Or someone logical.

What's more psychopathic?

1. To import intensively farmed meat products from massive cattle ranches that are destroying the ecosystem we depend on for life, and buy them from supermarkets that deliberately overstock to make their shelves look abundant, knowing plenty of it will end up in the skip. Plus buying a plastic toy for your child, that will be hanging around on the earth longer than any of us.

Or

1. Eating organic rabbit that's lived a free life and then doing something useful with the left over bits.

Number 1 is way more psychopathic IMO. But we've been conditioned to think it's fine as we live in a consumer culture.

Personally I think all meat is gross. The I find the rabbit's ear just as gross as a Christmas turkey. Or a pork chop. Same thing. It's all just conditioning.