Badgers move into graves...

[Denis]

This is so awesome and funny that I wouldn't mind if a bunch of badgers moved into my grave.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8059257/Badgers-dig-up-human-bones-in-graveyard.html

[jumbodbassman]

i just got a dachund puppy 2 weeks ago.  they were bred to hunt those suckers.  guess i am safe for the next 15 years....

[uwe]

I like badgers and they can feast on my bones once its time. I like to be good for something.


"We don't like company unless it's dead ...!!!!"



What do people actually think that is going on underground in cemeteries? Badgers are pobably among the more cute guests there and at least also contain the rabbit population (not corpse eating, but hole digging and thus destabilizing graves). There is also foxes, rats, moles, mice, rabbits, insects, invertrebrates and all kinds of microbacteria doing the sensible thing. In many urban cemeteries non- or slow-decomposing corpses are a much greater issue than a family of Goth-inclined badgers which go about their needful tasks in the seclusion of night and largely mind their own business.

The risk of badgers catching anthrax via eating dead people and then spreading the disease seems even with my limited biological knowledge a far-fetched one.  

[Psycho Bass Guy]

[Dave W]

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What do people actually think that is going on underground in cemeteries? Badgers are pobably among the more cute guests there and at least also contain the rabbit population (not corpse eating, but hole digging and thus destabilizing graves). There is also foxes, rats, moles, mice, rabbits, insects, invertrebrates and all kinds of microbacteria doing the sensible thing. In many urban cemeteries non- or slow-decomposing corpses are a much greater issue than a family of Goth-inclined badgers which go about their needful tasks in the seclusion of night and largely mind their own business.

The risk of badgers catching anthrax via eating dead people and then spreading the disease seems even with my limited biological knowledge a far-fetched one.  

The risk does seem far-fetched. Still, it must be disconcerting for the survivors to see bones dug up and then not be able to do anything about it due to bureaucratic regulations.

In the US, the badgers would be removed, one way or the other.

[Denis]

The risk does seem far-fetched. Still, it must be disconcerting for the survivors to see bones dug up and then not be able to do anything about it due to bureaucratic regulations.

In the US, the badgers would be removed killed for doing what they've done for a million years.

Fixed that for you, Dave.

[Dave W]

Fixed that for you, Dave.

True. And sad. But here in most cases people do have the right to deal with pests on private property.

[Highlander]

In the UK there is a big push to have them all exterminated for giving cows bovine TB, even with research that is not fully proven... To me, it is probably being pushed through by "the landed gentry" still p*ss*d at having hunting with dogs banned...