Unban Badgers

I was walking up my street on my way to see the UK Subs tonight and a fucking badger ran out in front of me. I'd been told by my next door neighbour that they had to sign something saying they wouldn't dig up any badger setts when they bought their house, but I've only ever seen foxes around the end of their garden where these alleged badgers were supposed to live, and foxes and badgers don't really get on. So I was like yeah right, badgers live here. In the middle of a town. Come on mate.

But they do! Badgers live here!

Don’t badger them

Here I was thinking badgers was some misunderstood ilxhead that had one too many posts flagged and op was sticking up for him

Foxes and badgers are both better than most people

Here in San Francisco, in the single-family home section of town (but still definitely inside the city limits) I saw a coyote (basically like a wild ~15kilo dog) at sunrise one morning.

foxes are majestic. i saw a pair of them running through the snow a few weeks ago.

Coyotes and mountain lions are a big problem in LA

Alternately, small dogs are a big problem in L.A. and coyotes and mountain lions are just taking advantage of favorable conditions?

there's a fox or two in the neighborhood I live in, one was in our garden once a year or two back. magic. jealous of the Colonel's badger sighting, what better thing to see of a winter evening than a lovely badger

two lovely badgers

That's a repurposing of the old looney tunes line "Rabbits. I hate rabbits. If there's anything I hate more than a rabbit, it's two rabbits."

which sometimes I think is my favourite joke of all time

I was walking up my street on my way to see the UK Subs tonight and a fucking badger ran out in front of me.

I always thought of badgers as slow moving creatures for some reason, but apparently they have a top speed of 19mph? (though only over "short distances") I'm now kind of curious about whether I would be able to outrun a badger

They have those go faster stripes for a reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

I like this picture of a badger (I've checked and badgers do eat pears, so it's accurate)

http://vintageprintable.swivelchairmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Animal-Woodland-Badger-Italian.jpg

Never seen a badger in the wild. By the way, lookswise, European badger >>>>>>>>>> American badger.

Don't think I've seen a badger either. Would love to

I've never seen a live one. Flat ones, however... :C

I've seen live badgers. Last dead one I saw (I think it had been hit by a car as it was by the side of a road) was the size of a medium-sized dog.

Ron Davies coming round your way soon then.

Grew up in the upper Midwest but never seen a badger, would THRILL to the sight of a badger

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wierdnwildcreatures/images/f/fc/American_Badger_front.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130901210036

American badgers seem pretty badass according to this (or maybe they were just running out of viable 'nightmares of nature' candidates by the time they got to card 117 and American badgers are actually nice?)

I don't know why that's so small, full size version here: http://wierdnwildcreatures.wikia.com/wiki/American_Badger?file=American_Badger_front.jpg

They seem kind of snarly from my two minutes worth of research, nothing like our tea-and-crumpets Wind in the Willows variety.

"Hi. I live in your yard."

They like mashed potato and I won't hear anything else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

finally realized the thread title was supposed to be "Urban Badgers", I thought the same thing as calstars above

I was thinking of the Urban Foxes thread when I posted it and somebody made an Unban Foxes joke there or somewhere or perhaps I imagined it. It seemed funny at the time.

Also badgers are being culled, which is a permaban of sorts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

Never seen a badger in London, but I do own a copy of this live album by uninteresting 70s group Badger which has an actual pop-up badger on the inside of the gatefold.

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20140703/161355063124.jpg

I like the idea of “Foxes” or “Badgers” as ilx usernames. Plural beings.

Rip Markers

Louises Jagger

british badgers are hard bastards i don't think this wind in the willows rep is fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuKNXP9LcSg

The only urban badgers I’ve ever come across were, funnily enough, within a couple of miles from CP’s place. My friend whose garden they visit says (iirc) they are v fond of nuts, especially cashews.

Badgers otm.

never seen a badger unfortunately. would love a sighting of the mash potato eating mustelid.

one thing i miss about glasgow and environs is the urban foxes. otoh in vancouver i have seen skunks and raccoons by the thousands (both v cute, both a nuisance) and even a coyote.

madison WI has or had a popular cab service called Badger Cab with a tormentingly catchy jingle

just call a badgerrrr
BEEP BEEP
rely on badgerrrrr
BEEP BEEP

This fellow is not as hard as he looks aiui, taxi cab theme tune simply confirms that.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/59/a8/b559a82b9cae6ad24fd4eca4a7f000a9.jpg

Always hope to see a raccoon when we are in the US, never have. I did see a skunk once in Cape Cod. And I saw a chipmunk in Big Bear. Love all these mammals.

Loads of foxes round here, I just saw one an hour ago on the way back from work. It's a tough old world when foxes have to get jobs. Sorry.

raccoons roam around where there is trash in the cities

i saw more than a few family of raccoons when i was a kid in vancouver, canada

No one I know in Wisconsin has ever seen a badger.

Also they're supposed to be dangerous assholes, correct?

The worst thing about urban raccoons is that every raccoon in your neighborhood goes to the bathroom in the same spot. And if that spot they choose happens to be in your yard...well... It's awfully hard to convince them to go elsewhere.

Love 2 c badgers but they're big strong heavy fuckers and don't give off an air of make nice they are the Tony Soprano of the local wildlife around here gimme yr fox anyday always on the make

in my experience, raccoons rarely cause trouble

for the most part i remember being taught to be more lenient and let them do their thing because they would eventually leave and are not harmful

if they became a nuisance we would call the municipality but this never happened in my experience with these little guys

to be honest i always loved the beaver more than any of these other rodents

they're supposed to be dangerous assholes, correct?

if you are seeking out dangerous asshole animals, bypass badgers and go directly to wolverines (aka 'bearcats'). they make badgers look pretty mellow.

badgers and raccoons are not rodents

fair enough but the only thing making raccoons a non-rodent is the lack of incisors

other than that they rummage through your trash and house like rats do

Jesus Christ can we get someone on this....where's gene? GENE!? yeah gene we got a guy here says badgers ain't rodents now gene i want our best men on this we can't afford another rodent misidentification this term

Jesus what a fuckup....badgers ain't rodents illbedamned

the facts matter and words mean things mr chairman

my sincere apologies to the badgers and raccoons of the world

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bttf/images/a/ae/250px-milton_baines.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae

was looking through that earlier! mustelids are awesome

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