Something that doesn’t happen every day - Page 1

Took the hound out for his usual gallop over the fields last night and it’s always easy to tell when he’s on the scent of something. He goes into a really fast trot with his nose to the ground and a serious determined manner about him. You know, when even the muscles on their ears appear to be working hard.

Anyway he did this again last night & I thought nothing of it as he hammered about in the dark and then I heard this unearthly commotion. It wasn’t barking or yelping but a low deep grumbling along with snuffling and various snarls, snorts & hisses. I quickly turned my torch on and there 15 yards away was ol’ Nelson standing over a badger.

I’m not entirely sure an actual fight was in progress as it looked more like Nelson trying to dominate and the badger telling him where to go, but the last thing I wanted to do was to step in & break them up, how exactly do you break up a badger/dog fight!? It took a couple of firm ‘Leave it’ before Nelson moved away and even then he wanted to go back for more – I don’t think he’d had so much fun for years.

By the time we got back to the car and I got over the initial shock I was just a litt

That badger would have been a carcass with my last two.  I never really took issue with their dispensing with squirrels and rabbits in the yard...figured they were doing Darwin's work making sure that the slow or stupid ones didn't get the opportunity to reproduce.  The ex-girlfriend's cat on the other hand...