Unexpected Sights

I have just watched some Stealth Camera footage from last night of a Badger Sett. Nothing strange there, apart from I have just seen a domestic cat come out of the sett!

What I did not see is the cat go in but It was dark when he came out and not much later three Badgers appeared from the same hole, including a very large male.

Now this is either some "Jungle Book Badger adopts Cat" story or that is a very brave domestic cat.

Tags: badger, cam, cats, stealth

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Batten-Phelps on October 14, 2010 at 14:34

Very surprising and I hope you can keep the stealth camera in place for longer to try and document this strange occurrence more fully. I would have thought any creature entering a badgers set without permission whilst the badgers were inside would be pretty much signing your own death sentence.

It would be very interesting to see if this cat is a regular visitor to the set and also see if you can capture any interactions between cat and badger - it could very well be the case of adoption or some mutual living agreements. The only other thing I can think of is that the set is far larger than we imagine and that the cat slipped in through one entrance off camera and quickly left through another that was in the camera's view.

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Permalink Reply by Gareth Jones on October 19, 2010 at 17:56

Hi,

I had the camera somewhere else but have put it back on that sett now.

I looked on the movement counter yesterday and it was pretty high. I would expect some footage of something moving, but lets see if the cat makes another appearance.

I'll upload the footage of the cat here shortly.

Gareth