Monday, March 27, 2006

Similar to the squirrel issue...

mentioned yesterday, in the UK we also have a badger issue. It appears that badgers are carriers of TB and can pass it on to other animals, wouldn't be an issue if the other animals were anything but cows. Badgers therefore represent a huge economic problem, solution, kill badger. Not quite the twee outcome described so movingly in Kenneth Graham's timeless trilogy, 'Badger Gets It In The Chest.'; 'Poor Badger.' and 'Put A Brick On That Lid Mother, This One's Not Going Quietly.'

7 comments:

Rob said...

Amazing that India's Muslims haven't deployed TB-infected badgers against the Hindu fanatics such as Shiv Sena ("Mess with our mosque one more time and the subcontinental cow population gets it").

Dan Flynn said...

Rob,

I think you should see a doctor.

Hayden said...

oh dear. what does it mean when I laughed hardest at the notion, my dear friend dan, that you could suggest someone else needed to see a doctor?

all's I gots to say abt badgers is "spit on 'em."

Dan Flynn said...

Hayden,

I'm sure I know not what you mean!

Buffy said...

i have a friend...

everytime he visits from america...

he does this weird 'badger bagder bagder' saying..

i have no idea why

but he seems to find it hilarious..

dead badgers...

on the side of the road....

his name is ron...

neena maiya (guyana gyal) said...

The badgers are badgering you, Dan? They have tb? Send them to the doctor, I say.

Dan Flynn said...

It's doctors that are recommending the culls. My view is that badgers should avoid the doctors. However, living with a hacking cough is no fun either. What is a badger to do?