Community HomeSunday March 14th
It’s been a busy week which involved a visit to London with Aquarius, the tiny badger cub. The Alan Titchmarsh Show wanted me to be at the studios early Monday morning so I decided it was easier to give him his feed at 8 p.m. Sunday night and then to travel up to London and to stay in a hotel overnight so that I was already in London for the 9 a.m visit.
Eyes open now , he's a pretty boy !
I arrived in London just before 11.30 p.m so just in time for his last night feed. I smuggled the incubator into the hotel room and the cub was still snug and warm with his hot water bottle, oblivious of his journey. Just my luck that he had a disturbed night and was calling for feeds every two hours. A badger cub being vocal in the middle of the night does sound horrendously loud and at one point we were both under the duvet trying to soften the noise!
Anyway we got to the studio on time and Aquarius proceeded to sleep solidly all through the day making up for the disturbed hours! There were rehearsals and we were filmed at 3 p.m. and got away from London before all the traffic started for home. The piece goes out on this Monday 15th March. Hopefully it will bring people to our web site and make them aware of the badger cull that is about to start in Pembrokeshire, Wales where thousands of badgers will be killed.
There was a demonstration outside the Welsh Assembly the same day as I was in London but I took the decision that hopefully we would reach more people through the television than going to Cardiff. There were still nearly 200 people at the demonstration and if nothing else, it shows the Welsh Assembly that we will continue to fight their decision. We just need more people to write to Elin Jones and protest at the stupidity of this Pilot scheme when science has already proved that it plays no part in the control of Bovine tb in cattle.
A tiny new born goat kid from Brean Down was found having fallen from the cliffs on Sunday March 7th. It was practically dead with blood pouring from it’s mouth. Luckily someone found it and it was brought out to us. He stayed overnight at the vets and returned to us on the Monday. He has got stronger every day and is now skipping around. He has a broken leg on the knee joint so there is nothing we can do for the leg but he is doing well and will probably be staying with us. The name is yet to be agreed upon !
Only a couple of days old, he's so much better now.
He has had a short run in the garden and has found the few flowers that are struggling to come though now that the sunshine is to be seen through the day.
My days never seem long enough with goat kid, otter cub and badger cub to feed although the girls help during the day. The kitchen is more a nursery than anything else and it’s very noisy first thing in the morning when everyone wants their feed at the same time!
Aquarius has opened his eyes and is taking from a baby’s bottle now. At least this little cub will be safe from harm this spring. I can’t help but think of all badgers and cubs that will not be safe and will be killed in Wales.
Taking from a baby's bottle now
People of Wales, look long and hard at these pictures of an innocent young badger cub… He’s just like the innocent badger cubs which your elected Government now proposes to arbitarily slaughter on mass in Wales with no proven scientific reasoning to substantiate their arguement that badger activity causes the spread of bovine TB. He’s lucky he is not going to be needlessly butchered, just because he’s from Somerset.
50-60 years of UK Government funded research has been invested in identifying a link, without success… in the light of this discovery responsible, open-minded people would further question that any connection exists and therefore doubt the beneficial effects of such wholesale genocide… but you have allowed your Government to pull all the strings and proceed with their policy unchallenged.
Shame on you for your pathetic, appalling apathy.
Comment by Mat Curtis — March 17, 2010 @ 11:51 am