I was hiking near Lake Louise in Canada a few years ago
with a couple of mates, and one of them, bless, was desperate to see a bear. We saw this brown thing start to appear over the brow of a hill, and he screamed "BEAAARRRR!" .. just as the red lead and the small girl walking the (admittedly, it was a Newfie, but still) brown dog also appeared. Embarrasment WIN.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:00, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

haha I realise it's unlikely that I'll ever see one.
But I'd love to. Same as I'd like to see a hedgehog and a badger in england - I never got to see either while I was there.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:03, Reply)

I've never seen a live badger in the wild here
and I'm 35 and grew up in the middle of the countryside. So good luck with that ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:07, Reply)

I got chased by one across a golf course
fucking terrifying.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:10, Reply)

Noel knows where they live near his house.
When I go back, I'm gonna sit outside one until I see it.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:11, Reply)

Good luck
They're extremely reclusive, if they smell you they probably won't make an appearance.

Unless they're rabid, in which case it seems they're willing to chase you for hundreds of yards for an opportunity to rip out your throat.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:14, Reply)

you'd probably called its missus a stripy slag
you bring these things on yourself, you know.

Also. Fucking candle and that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Now that you mention it
I may have knocked its pint over.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:17, Reply)

I've stood in a dead one
quite a vivid memory considering I was 8.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:11, Reply)

I saw the best dead one ever last year
upside down, absolutely rigid, all four legs in the air. It's like it stood on a small landmine and had a heart attack
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:14, Reply)

I regularly saw badgers and foxes near my old house.
I did live on the edge of a large public park, mind. The badgers were always poking around in the bin.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:24, Reply)