You know that things are starting to get slightly out of hand when your wife greets the badger's arrival with the welcome of "Hello children," and this is only exacerbated when she returns from the shops weighed down with cans of cheap dog food.
The obligatory peanuts were scattered and then a mixture of Ryvita and dog food filled the badger box. It wasn't even 21:00 and the three of them wandered in. Strangely, given their strong sense of smell, they ensured they'd devoured all of the peanuts before investigating the badger box and the treats held within. It started gently with one nosing around in the meat, and then two of them seemed to find a happy middle ground, both snouts buried, but when the third tried to get involved it all went crazy. He bundled over the top of the other two, flopped down the other side and then Captain pushed off down the garden with his snout still deep in the box. Dog meat and Ryvita went everywhere and whilst two of them slammed their rumps into each other the remaining badger quietly snuffled his way through a pile on the grass. It took them less than ten minutes to consume the two cans of dog food and they were as close to licking the box clean as could be expected of a wild animal. I think it's safe to say they enjoyed it.
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