Yes well I wasn't sure about the cat food, as I wasn't sure if Badgers should eat it. I know too much of it is not very good for dogs.
But the point of putting it out in the field away from the house was to distract the Badger from coming across the bridge, so she might be more interested in that.
Anyway there is no more cat food now so I won't be doing that again.
The thing about Badgers is they get very set in their ways. If a Badger does something three days in a row, it will continue to do the same thing until it leaves this world! And all its descendants may probably want to do the same thing!
They have traditional places to forage, traditional trackways, and latrine-places. Once they decide where they want to be -that's it! They are also tremendously strong and will even bend iron, shift rocks, or dig under wire fences in order to continue on the trackway they have marked out.
I have been peeing in that plastic jug since last night! haha.... And sprinkling it outside the perimeter of the wire fence.
I will be able to tell later tonight if it made any difference. On my way back from seeing Sally-cat tonight, I'll check if Badger is in the garden or not.
This is such a lovely rural area, there are plenty of alternative places for Mrs Badger to forage! Hundreds upon hundreds of acres.
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Update at midnight....it seems to have worked. I 'reinforced my territorial boundaries' 5 times today. There is no sign of the Badger tonight. A simple solution (so far so good anyway.)
But the point of putting it out in the field away from the house was to distract the Badger from coming across the bridge, so she might be more interested in that.
Anyway there is no more cat food now so I won't be doing that again.
The thing about Badgers is they get very set in their ways. If a Badger does something three days in a row, it will continue to do the same thing until it leaves this world! And all its descendants may probably want to do the same thing!
They have traditional places to forage, traditional trackways, and latrine-places. Once they decide where they want to be -that's it! They are also tremendously strong and will even bend iron, shift rocks, or dig under wire fences in order to continue on the trackway they have marked out.
I have been peeing in that plastic jug since last night! haha.... And sprinkling it outside the perimeter of the wire fence.
I will be able to tell later tonight if it made any difference. On my way back from seeing Sally-cat tonight, I'll check if Badger is in the garden or not.
This is such a lovely rural area, there are plenty of alternative places for Mrs Badger to forage! Hundreds upon hundreds of acres.
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Update at midnight....it seems to have worked. I 'reinforced my territorial boundaries' 5 times today. There is no sign of the Badger tonight. A simple solution (so far so good anyway.)
