4:55
Well, when I've just been over to Godalming um there's a member of public um found a badger in his shed as he was trying to get his tools and was a bit startled. He got a bit of a shock this morning when he went to let the spade for me. And he opened the door and uh the poor badger was a bit shocked as well. Oh, I can see So, there he is. We'll lose some of these hazards and give us a little bit more space. Going ready, team. Got you. Right. Oh, can you see that? Rump wound. What is that? Rump wound. So, yeah. That's a nasty back rump wound that.
Oh, that's nasty, boy. Come on, mate. We're going to get you some help. Come on. I'm going to leave myself out and I'm going to step over the basket. Uh cuz I don't want to be in biting range. So, and in. And he's in. It's my arm. Well done. So, that's how you catch a badger. Easy as that. So, he had a really nasty rump wound around the back. So, what typically happens is badgers will fight and they will often get kicked out the set. And as they leave, it's the rump wound that sends them on their way. Doesn't look immediately fresh. So, I wonder if infection has started to take place.
He's feeling a bit sorry for himself and he's hunkering down because if he's kicked out of his set, he's got nowhere to go. We'll get him into the vets now, get him sedated and we'll check on those wounds. And then hopefully we can get him to the treatment and help he needs. Oh, he's a heavy boy, though. Oh. There we go. Just pop him in here, yeah. Oh, maybe 7 kilos, maybe. No more than that. Than what? It's smaller. Mhm. The small one? Okay. We were able to sedate the badger and assess the nasty rump wound. It was heavily infected. Um it was a large wound. So, we all went straight to work cleaning the rump wound of the badger.
Um he was given some antibiotics and some pain relief for the next 3 to 4 weeks. That badger will require daily observations, monitoring, wound cleaning, and further treatment. All with the hopes to be able to get him fit and healthy to put back in the wild. Once the badger was all fit and healthy, he was a little bit more tricky to handle than he was the first time round. But we were successfully able to get him into a basket, into the truck, and transport him back to his new home. The release went really, really well and it was great to see him back in the wild. All that work, all that care that went into that badger um from start to finish, and it was just so lovely to see him go back to his new home.
