RESCUES
If you find a severely wounded, badly injured, or obviously sick badger, please take extreme care and get expert help as soon as possible. A list of our trained rescuers can be found below.
Always remember, that frightened animals bite in self-defence, often with surprising speed and little or no warning and badgers have immensely powerful jaws, which can inflict deep wounds. Therefore please leave the badger alone and call us immediately for advice.
Trained wildlife rehabilitators, RSPCA inspectorate and experienced members of badger groups have the skill and know how to approach, handle and make badgers safe in secure carrying cages. They have specialist equipment for rescues, so please wait until they arrive at the site.
If you have a sick or injured badger or have a badger in your garden in daylight hours, please call for advice and support.
Emergency Rescue Tel: 07947 178256
(Alternative if no answer: 07824 707799)
If you cannot get through leave a message, but keep calling us until we answer.
We are all volunteers and have different availability.
Alternative help in Northamptonshire:
Animals in Need: 07527872476
RSPCA: 0300 1234 999
Badgers injured in fights sometimes retreat to places where they can rest and recover in peace. Barns, garden sheds, corners of gardens and spaces under patios are often chosen.
Left alone, badgers with ugly-looking bite wounds to their necks or rear quarters will often recover very quickly and wander off. Some are less fortunate, the wounds turn septic, and they, along with badgers seriously injured in traffic accidents needs skilled care from a vet, wildlife rescue centre, the local badger group or the RSPCA. Many are too seriously injured to be saved and they have to be put down to save them from further suffering; but there are an extraordinary number of badgers that survive, thanks to the expert care and skill they receive.