Stressed out Badger

[Rasputin]

One of the hazards of haying in Saskatchewan.



By the way, it is not DEAD!





I would really hate to try to rescue him. I think this would
qualify as one of those things that really ticks a badger off.

[Ken Talbot]

I think a person would want to snip the"binder twine" on the opposite side of that bale!

[kjohnson]

them badgers are mean little things. i had my golf ball land at the mouth of a fresh badger hole last night. i'm glad he wasn't home at the moment. that would have made my bad golf game even worse.

[Geezer]

I'd think if that badger were alive it would have chewed through that bail long before some one got a chance to take the pic. If not, that would make a prime opportunity to shoot it (not with a camera...)

Geezer

[81xsproject]

He/she may not be dead, but I'd be willing to bet (by its quite flattened shape) that it is not long for this world. Personally, I really like all of natures inherently pissed off creatures (badgers, wolverines, Tasmanian devils, etc.).

My favorite nature footage is from the show on Wolverines where the little booger takes on a mountain lion in one seen (whoops its A) and two wolves in another (whoops both there A's).

[Incubus]

Many years ago I went hiking with my wife and then 2-year-old son in Grand Teton National Park. We were only about a quarter-mile outside the campground and my son ran up ahead. He got about 20 feet out and then crouched and started poking at something alongside the trail with the little branch he was carrying as a hiking stick. I walked up behind him and saw over his shoulder that he was poking at a badger lying in a hole alongside the trail. I grabbed him and backed up, thankful that the badger was already dead and didn't rush its tormenter. I backed off about 20 feet, and waited as my wife caught up.

"Hey babe," I said, "you ever see a real badger (we're from Wisconsin, but you don't run into a whole of wild game in Milwaukee) there's a dead one right over there in a hole."

She walked over to the hole and said, "What are you talking about? there's nothing in this hole."

I walked over. She was right.

I still sometimes wonder why that badger let my son get away with poking him. Still get a shiver about it.

Patrick