General Chat

Well there's one critter my Sulcata
is eating me out of house and home :-D :-D

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AWW he /she is Beautiful Thank you :-D :-D :-D

I've changed my profile to show one of the badgers we met in Cornwall. <3

There's a wild boar lives in the hills near us
its a place called Captain Cooks monument :-D :-D

Not sure what to think about the cull really, I love badgers yet I have seen farmers distraught on TV at losing their cattle. But, who knows which way the horrid disease spreads, I hope the vacination in Derbyshire can prove something Pat.

We were very lucky to see badgers when we were on holiday in Cornwall a few years ago. They came up to the accommodation to be fed. However, I don't think I would like them in my garden, they do an awful lot of damage.

They cull wild boar in this area as well. I suspect they are sold on to butchers for the table.

'The welfare of a fox or fox cub that is dragged from its underground refuge with the aid of spades, terriers and poles wrapped with barbed wire is certainly compromised, whatever about claims that the hunt 'dig-out' is part of a proud rural tradition.'

One of my 1950s teachers was a Miss Fox. God be good to her!

Only about 6% of cattle with TB contract the desease from badgers. Most of the badgers that are slaughtered don't even have TB.

We had a van years ago and we used to hide in it at dusk AND dawn

We have seen some wonderful wildlife
But sadly the Badgers eluded us every time :-( :-(

It was an added bonus, Joy. We'd have paid twice as much for the cottage if we'd known about the badgers.

We've been on a few badger watches here but only seen them from a distance, the Cornish ones had come to expect regular peanuts.

Guinevere
I am so jealous of you seeing the Badgers
I was going to go on a Badger watch 6 years ago
But then things happened here which are still ongoing

so never got to do it :-( :-( :-(

But one day I just might :-D :-D :-D

The cull is bad science. I won't go into the geeky details but it's on the internet for those interested.

http://www.hsi.org/world/united_kingdom/work/badgers/factsheets/badgers_scientific_quotes.html

We're in our county's badger group which is campaigning against the cull.

We've been lucky enough to see badgers in the wild. On one holiday in Cornwall a couple of badgers visited the cottage every night if you left peanuts out for them. It was wonderful to be so close to them.

PatinCyprus I to will look forward to seeing the results

Derbyshire are vaccinating the badgers so we'll see what happens cull v vaccination.

It will be interesting to see whether the cows in the different areas still get TB.

Sylvia I agree to :-D :-D

DET

her theory might well be correct. Good summers, warmer winters, lots of food = population explosion.

I would love to see a badger in real life :-D

Maggie -as humankind, we're doing that job ourselves :-0

Poor bloke probably thought he should have left that last pint.;-)
Left to their own devices, urban foxes can probably manage to feed themselves quite well from our debris. After all, they are quite happy to scavenge in dustbins or catch rats as a last resort.

Our friends outside of Truro are complaining that Badgers are causing havoc in their garden this year. They can't think why they've moved in as there hasn't been any building to destroy their habitat. She has a theory their numbers haven't been kept in check because of the lack of cold winters recently. She may be grasping at straws?

She never she screamed and shut the door

I can get to within 6 feet of ours
A man passing shouted over
Mrs your dog looks like a fox one night
when I was feeding them
I shouted that's cause it is a fox
He was amazed

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Thanks for that, Sheila :-D
So we probably need to cull humans.
There's a few hundred who gather in a 'Common' House in London I would suggest they start with........ :-D :-D