People who take in an injured badger could be endangering its life, according to police.<\/p>\n
Lincolnshire Police issued the warning after wildlife officers seized a badger cub from a family kitchen, where it was “living in squalid conditions”.<\/p>\n
Det Con Aaron Flint said the male cub had been fed on tinned food and had lost a lot of fur.<\/p>\n
He urged people to do their research before taking in an injured animal to avoid causing more suffering.<\/p>\n
Flint said the cub was seized by officers in May and “was in really awful condition”.<\/p>\n
“When I went and took him, he got himself into the sleeve of a dirty-looking fleece. I have no doubt had I not seized this badger it would have died.”<\/p>\n
The animal is now being cared for by the Lincolnshire Badger Group, which is affiliated with the Badger Trust.<\/p>\n
Ally Foyster, a member of the group, said “Mr Baldie”, as the cub has been named, was recuperating well.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes people take them overnight because they think they’re cute, they think they’re cuddly, they sit and have them on their knees, but they don’t give them a drink, they don’t give them anything to eat,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That 24 hours that person has that badger can be vital.”<\/p>\n
Volunteers at the centre are keeping human contact with the cub to a minimum as it will be returned to the countryside as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who take in an injured badger could be endangering its life, according to police. Lincolnshire Police issued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-678019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}