I’ve always had a soft spot for badgers; they were always the good guys in children’s stories that I read when I was young:
http://loiselden.com/2013/04/18/badgers/
and a favourite TV programme of my own children was ‘Bodger and Badger’
http://loiselden.com/2013/02/07/bodger-and-badger/
Bu as I mentioned in the above blogs there is another side to badgers… and the side is that actually they are real wild creatures, and have the habits and behaviour of wild creatures.
As I also mentioned before, that lovely as it is to see them gambolling about, or hear their sharp little claws clickety-clicking on the paths as they pass by at night, they have the same needs as all living things, and one of those needs is to do with their toilet.
Local badgers are digging up our garden in search of worms and bugs (fair enough, it’s annoying but they need to eat) but then they are using the nicely dug hole as a latrine! Yuk, disgusting, revolting, horrible!
So this post is asking again for suggestions to deter them, and thank you to everyone who suggested solutions to our badger-poo problem… the only one we haven’t tried is lion droppings, no neighbourhood lions!
Help! Any ideas for deterring these lovable but pesky creatures?
Lois Elsden 
I guess you don’t have a dog, Lois? Seems like that would help. But in that case:
Try baling wire (buy a bale of it) lay it over the ground.
Or try putting some whirlygigs (those toys that spin, not sure what they’re called? windmills?) put those around the holes.
Also there is this tonic (“gopher go” tonic–we have no badgers here)
4tbsp castor oil
4tbsp liquid dish soap
4tbsp urine (your own or a friends’)
combine in 1/2 cup warm water then stir into 2 gallons warm water and pour over the area
another animal control tonic is
1 cup ammonia
1/2 cup urine (see above)
1/2 cup liquid dish soap
1/4 cup castor oil. mix them all in a 20 gallon hose-end sprayer and saturate the ruts and burrows
I do know that human pee discourages a multitude of critters, the marijuana farmers swear by it, not that I would know ☺ it’s one of the things you learn hanging around musicians.
love!
xoxo
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We’ll certainly give that a try… and there is nothing wrong with hanging around with musicians, I live with one… in fact he will supply one of the necessary ingredients to your control tonic… a nice eumphemism!!
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Another suggestion is to sprinkle liberally hot chili powder in the area you want protected. We use this for cats that use my flower bed for a latrine. I buy it pretty cheap at a Bulk Barn as you need to repeat after it rains and after about a week. Hope this helps Lois.
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Thank you Helen… we’ll try that!
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