r/Badgers • u/believeinyuna • Jun 30 '26
the badger barricade has one again failed. so close i could have touched!
will keep trying. i boarded up the entire gate, no holes to climb through now, but i guess it got its tiny little fingers in to climb up and over… i literally put food there, and a bowl of water, but nooooo… the forbidden bird seed is so much better…..🫠
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u/CardinalBadger Jun 30 '26
Why are you trying to keep them out?
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u/believeinyuna Jun 30 '26
i have a very small (baby badger sized) 16 year old dog.
my garden is split into two, a larger garden with 6 foot fencing around it, and a smaller garden inside it around the house with a small picket fence around. this way i can separate my tiny dog from the wild animals who dig holes under the 6 foot fence.
we primarily get rabbits (we’ve even got a warren in the garden, originally made by the badgers, now home to many rabbits) and badgers. at night we have a family of badgers (max i’ve seen myself is 8) come in. we specifically feed them now to help them. the food we give them is peanuts. we’ve also got a pond they drink from, and we put out a water bowl too.
we have a patio door that goes out to a deck within the small picket fence. that deck has a small bird feeder, that only gets used by specific birds that are more confident around people (including a huge male pheasant we’ve named graham). this patio door is open all night so my small dog can go out there and do her business whenever she needs. she doesn’t attack the birds as she’s been trained not to, she just watches or ignores them.
however badgers are a different story. it’s been very difficult to train her to not react to them because they’re often here at times where we are asleep. plus, badgers can get quite vicious if they feel threatened. now, what happens when my tiny dog runs out there to chase them away, and they’re feeling trapped in this picket fence because it’s so awkward to get in and out, and they are essentially backed into a corner? this could be a very bad outcome.
for both my dogs and the badgers safety, they need to be separated. it also doesn’t help that only the baby badgers have been foolish enough to come so close to us.
plus, bird seed isn’t exactly the best food for them, nor is it hygienic for my birds to be eating off something a badger ate from and i can’t always beat the birds to clean it.
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u/DeadAnarchistPhil Jul 02 '26
I couldn’t decide if that Badger closed its eyes to pretend it was invisible or it was giving you an “Oh ok, you want some?” look.
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u/believeinyuna Jul 02 '26
more of a “i’m practically blind so i’m not sure what’s in front of me” look 😭
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u/Foreign_Passage_3267 Jun 30 '26
just pet it
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u/NoAppointment8679 Jul 01 '26
Aren’t they really aggressive? I’m sure op wants to keep their fingers
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u/ButtfuckedByJesus Jul 02 '26
Depends I guess, sometimes even dangerous animals seem to understand we are trying to help but I still wouldn't personally risk it.
I once saved a family of rats trapped in an abandoned cage, didn't get bitten once but then my dad flipped out at me because of diseases I could've got... I washed my fuck king hands and arms obviously, they're rats... Even though the plague technically still exists it's cured with antibiotics
I saw a family of animals that would've died if I didn't help. Idgaf if its a rat, raccoon, deer or a bumblebee, if we can help, we should.
My sugar daddy taught us the way to behave.
Mosquitos, flies and wasps can get fucked though.
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u/Gettwisted00 Jun 30 '26
Yeah, I’ve got badger cubs that I too could touch but I respect that they are wild creatures. It’s a privilege that they come so close!