Badger

[nrbq]

Sighted on a golf course just outside of vincennes.

 

[williamnewman1]

if theres no pics , it totally didn't happen

 

[whiteman]

Was told, by DNR, back in the 70s that a few badgers were in Greene county. But I had never seen one or a picture of one.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Be advised, FYI/FWIW, badgers are "endangered" in Indiana.

DNR: Badger

 

[trapperDave]

saw one in shelby county in the 80's...in a buddy's trap. Those things have wicked long claws...and a temper. It was eventually released unharmed.

 

[singlestacksig]

one lives along the wabash just south of downtown Lafayette, seen it a few times..
last time i saw it was near shamrock park..

 

[VN Vet]

Also, Badger milk is supposed to be very good for you. I saw that in a movie. :>)

But who the heck is going to milk the Badger? If you do, please film the milking and post it on YouTube.

 

[HamsterStyle]

And don't ever, ever do this to a family of badgers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWE6oPv3KLs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[yotewacker]

A badger will keep digging trying to get out of a trap. They make a giant hole.

 

[ghitch75]

Was told, by DNR, back in the 70s that a few badgers were in Greene county. But I had never seen one or a picture of one.

lived in Greene county for 21 years and hunted here 10 years before that... never heard that one....

 

[Hookeye]

Years ago had one living in a field across from my house in Ft Wayne. He owned the field.

Got one in a small woods we hunt in Fulton County. He owns that woods.

Saw one off I69 yrs ago, overpass hill. I suspect he owned that hill.

 

[hps]

Seen one in Parke county back in the mid 70's

 

[straittactical]

I seen one at the zoo a few years ago. I am guessing he owned that zoo

 

[phylodog]

Badgers I can live with. Ya'll start talkin about hoosier honey badgers and I'm moving to Louisiana.

 

[Disposable Heart]

Friend of mine in college actually had a "pet" badger. It lived in his backyard, dug in under the fence and would bristle at anything it didn't like. But it would regularly come up to him or I and burble like a baby. It was VERY small when he initially met it, wondered if it was just fresh from the sett. This was in Ohio.

One of my hidden talents: I can, through being around it for so long, fully vocalize most badger sounds. It and I would have "conversations", then "play" (mostly it tugging on my pants or, yes, sitting on my face burbling and looking proud of his achievement of tackling a human). Their regular cry is a growling-groan, then going up in pitch. Really weird sounding. Mostly hissing. When playing or "happy", it makes an oily bubbling sound, sort of like congested purring.

They are a VERY aggressive animal and not really tameable in the slightest. We would see it run off to a corner of the yard and dirt would literally fly, literally. 3 feet a minute in looser soil. Very amazing animals, liked earthworms and potatoes, lol. Would go nuts for strawberries.

Not an uber pettable animal: Felt like petting a soft bristle brush, but had a soft underside. Would scratch itself like a lazy human, sort of scratching it's belly slowly.

Sorry, tangent and a half. I love them: I see alot of myself in them and vice versa. They like to be left alone.

 

[throttletony]

Be advised, FYI/FWIW, badgers are "endangered" in Indiana.

DNR: Badger

+1 to this.
They were driven to extinction like a lot of other awesome species in Indiana. I'm always glad to hear "possible" bear track stories, or growing stories of bobcat sightings around here, and even a cougar?? Things are looking up! Badgers are very cool creatures though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA8pxzawUGM&feature=fvwrel

By the way, the American badger is way cooler than the European counterpart..

 

[spearheadersarge]

I can't believe that guy caught that badger! He seemed like a goof. I'm shocked he didn't get attacked and seriously injured! That badger was obviously between a rock and a hard place since they got between the animal and its den. I hope they released it.

 

[miguel]

Badgers (Badger, badger, badger, badger. Mushroom, mushroom! Snake!) | Flash Videos

 

[printcraft]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

 

[Bigshep]

Honey Badger don't care. Honey Badger don't give a ****.