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just asked the son who is residing en famille with his wife and daughter rent free to put the dogs out for a pee, how hard is it to do that ffs???

All I can hear is barking and yelping for 5 minutes, so off I go to investigate cause. Son, supposed alpha male (in his eyes only not mine) is standing by the door looking into darkness winging "i havent got any shoes" so off I go bare foot to silence the now pack of hounds (only 3) who have a cat cornered in the garden. Only I failed to realise that the dalamation has sprinted back in the house, the Labrador is standing well back and only the nutty golden retriever has the cat by the neck.

So grab the retriever by the scruff and drag him off, put bare foot into the arse of cat and try launching it off into the neighbours. Please note, its dark, my vision isnt good at close range but my hearing hasnt lost any of its ability to recognise sounds etc. And at this point my hearing has identified that moggies don't make guttural growling noises that I am now hearing, as my bare foot makes contact with something much heavier than any domestic kitty!!

Realisation is a wonderful thing, as is hind sight, I really should have slipped on some work boots, I really should have got a torch and more importantly, I really should not have kicked brock the badger up his arse when he has already been having a pretty shyty evening. So at that point I used that wonderful thing that humans have used since the woolly mammoth was around, sheer fright and adrenalin, which meant that I could now carry on my Jonny Wilkinson impression and manage to get that growling lump of fur to levitate about 4 foot in the air away from my foot and more importantly gonads as I damn nigh shat myself.

So now that I realise what was happening, I release nutty dog from my grip and encourage him to see off the now really pyssed of stripy dog across the lawn and off to the neighbours garden.

The result off this little excitement, daughter accusing me of hurting her mad retriever, dalmation who has the nerve of its master decides its safer to crap in the kitchen than garden. So now I am downing the rest of my single malt in the company of my Labrador, who just stood back and admired the whole show, wish I had!!!
 
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I got to brock the badger and p!issed myself laughing to the point of crying, tearing up the lot!!

i was expecting the next bit to be i'm off to a and e now!!!!!

I had an idiotic friend who tried to pet a badger.....
 
its the third time me and a badger have met at night, time before when one had cornered the neighbours cat under our shed and then I was in a dressing gown with broom and wellies, and said brock took it fm behind and peed off somewhat annoyed. The first time as a kid I put 3 dogs out on our farm, they found a badger in the dustbin and he won the fight dalmation just ran off inside but the 2 yorkshire terriers stayed the whole 10 rounds and they suffered quite a few cuts and bruises, that time I kept well clear as it was fairly amazing to watch as those little dogs wont give up despite being outdone on the size stakes!!! The badger did get to take his meal away as well despite their best efforts.
 
What is so bad about badgers?

I, like many other people who have never even seen a badger would consider you lucky!
 
What is so bad about badgers?

I, like many other people who have never even seen a badger would consider you lucky!

badgers are wonderfully cute when seen on country file eating peanuts, however they are just a wild version of a bull terrier and they dont like being cornered, poked or kicked up the chuff by some old git who cant see straight. Otherwise I luv the blighters, unless they start to look for crane fly larva/leather jackets in my lawn, which they can destroy in one short night
 
Lol. The voice of experience.

Seems the whole UK is anti badger at the moment, but from my perspective I think how problematic can they be considering they're almost mythical creatures
 
I'm not anti badger, they are wonderful beasties, just dont like meeting them bare foot and unprepared, I prefer sitting at dusk by a sett waiting for them to come out, just none have ever appeared when I have waited!! 🙂
 
What is so bad about badgers?

I, like many other people who have never even seen a badger would consider you lucky!

Badgers are bloody hardy, strong and smart
they have a very bad temper and don't play nice with other domestic animals or humans.
will share a den with a fox or feral cat though.

Lovely to see from a distance just don't corner or kick them......LAME.

haven't you heard of badger baiting?
truth be known the fighting dogs used to come off far worse usually than the badgers.
not that it should be happening now as its banned.

give honey badger a youtube, the beefed up version of our European badger.
 
if you want another way to have a bad night, dont go investigating pig noises in the field next to your house as I did about 15 years ago. I thought a couple of our pigs had got into the wrong field, so once again, over the fence off towards grunting noise, turn on torch (had one this time), turn off torch, bout turn and sprint for home, never ever interrupt a coule of stags mid rut, they will turn on you. for those who thought I meant mid having a hump, no, its mid having a fight as to who then has a hump.
 
I stepped on a badger once while walking through some woods in the dark.

Not entirely sure who screamed loudest but we ran off in different directions.......
 

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