Any ideas how I could gently discourage Mr Badger from trashing my garden?

[Springersrock]

We have a badger family living in the field next to our house.

Over the last couple of weeks they’ve started coming into my back garden - not a problem particularly, other than they’re bashing great big holes in the fences.

They’re bashing through both sides to get into NDN’s garden, then bashing through the fence at the end of his garden to get to a footpath - that runs from their field anyway

Every time we mend a hole, they make a new one

We’ve got a dog so I need to keep the garden secure

Plus, they’re driving doggo mad at night as he can hear them and he’s bloody barking

We’ve lived here 12 years and they’ve never come into our back garden before, I don’t think we’ve done anything to piss them off and there’s been no changes to their usual route so I would quite like to stop them vandalising the joint.

Thanks!

I realise this is years after you posted BUT did you try the electric fence and did it work!? I'm not in the same desperate situation as you

I would put food over the fence at the top right hand corner of your garden to "guide" them onto the path. Hopefully once they have gone to the food they will just continue down the path.

I had this problem at my last house. I tried everything including electric fencing. The only thing that worked was leaving a radio plugged in the gazebo overnight and turned it up. Not to loud but loud enough.The first night I left it on they didn't dig the lawn up. I put it on every night for a fortnight. They never came back. doubt it made a difference to the badgers but I put a crap talking channel on, 😁