Badger Cubs

 I had a report on Saturday night that a badger cub had been taken in to Highcroft Vets on the Wells Road.

I contacted the practice and got a very quick response from the RVN there. I was given the rough location and told that the cub had checked out fine and was handed to Secret World to take care of. My thanks to the RVN in question.

Apparently a woman had spotted the cub in a garden and rather that check the local sett (known locally) and see if the mother came to retrieve the cub she took it to the vet. A healthy badger cub, as with a healthy fox cub, close to home should be kept under observation and patience to wait and see if the mother turned up.

Secret World will not give out information on whether they will try to reunite mother-cub or whether the cub will be released elsewhere. Like the four cubs transported from the Isle of Wight that SW are caring for ((the IOW badger group made the 1,800 miles journey there ?!) any badger lost toa local population can have a ripple effect.

The IOW cubs were just handed over and "Secret World will decide where they are released" which is four healthy7 cubs lost to an island population.

WHERE SW can release 5 badger cubs is a mystery since Somerset is a cull/badger unfriendly area and you can't just dump four cubs anywhere and definitely not near another clan area.

It would be lovely to just be given facts and information on release areas so the badgers can be looked after in future.

There is still the question, which Secret World will not answer, as the what happened to the two cubs taken from Ashton Court?

Everyone should be working together.