A Sheffield student spent an hour trying to get rid of a badger after he woke up to find the creature in his kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baffled by the sight, Tom Coles, a medical student at the University of Sheffield, couldn\u2019t understand how the badger accessed the student house in Crookesmoor on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 23-year-old said he couldn\u2019t recall leaving a door or window open before going to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: \u201cI was like \u2018no way\u2019, at first. I just didn\u2019t understand how a badger had got in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI found it quite funny if I\u2019m honest, but then I remembered once being told that badgers are kind of vicious if you get on their bad side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tom said that before attempting to deal with the badger he called his dad\u2019s friend John who used to work at a pet shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: “I hadn\u2019t got a clue how to approach it. I think I was lucky that it never got startled. It was really tame actually.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John Palmer, 55, who lives in Sheffield, arrived at the house within 20 minutes to assess the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By this point, the badger had made its way over to the side of the house, but was still in the kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Palmer said: \u201cWhat I do know about badgers is that you shouldn\u2019t interrupt whatever they\u2019re doing. Just stand well back. That\u2019s what I told Tom and that\u2019s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the RSPCA people who encounter badgers in their gardens should remove what is attracting them, which can often be food or shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unsure whether the smell of the kitchen food bin had lured the badger indoors, Mr Palmer suggested they slowly lift it outside onto the front path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019d been trying for about 15 minutes together, using various tactics,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnce we picked the bin up, it took notice like that [signalling a click with his fingers], and followed us outside a metre or so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Coles said once the bin and the badger were outside, it didn\u2019t take long for the badger to lose interest and wander off down the path out of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a lesson learnt I suppose. Note-to-self: better to sweat out of heat than sweat out of fear,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t fancy my chances against those claws and I still wouldn\u2019t next time either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Sheffield student spent an hour trying to get rid of a badger after he woke up to find the creature in his kitchen. Baffled by the sight, Tom Coles, a medical student at the University of Sheffield, couldn\u2019t understand how the badger accessed the student house in Crookesmoor on Tuesday. The 23-year-old said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,21,82],"tags":[42,1030,38,201,31],"class_list":["post-50805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-top-story","tag-animals","tag-badger","tag-sheffield","tag-student","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"\n