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There's badgers....... #25339
11/20/2014 05:26 PM
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I saw a brief news post today with a picture of two ICO's in Noble county helping release a badger that had been caught in a trap. I never heard of badgers in Indiana. Has anybody else?? eek


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yes. first i seen was way back about 1988 in shelby county in a friends trap. released after quite some effort.


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11/21/2014 02:29 AM
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I seen one last year while deer hunting. I told the landowner thinking he would call me crazy. Turns out he had seen 1 or 2 over the few years he has lived there.


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I lived along Big Blue River close to Carthage for a time, and there was an entire liter under an old barn. I think all of the young ones got it on the road. Also seen one on more than one occasion while working on what is now the DOC facility North of New Castle. Right across the river from Wilbur Wright.

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I caught one in the early 70,s and a friend did also in Madison Co near Pendleton

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Wow, I had no idea. The critter had dug one, heckuva hole before the CO's got to him. Pretty interesting animal from what I've been reading.


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They are the meanest thing I ever released

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Originally posted by THROBAK:
They are the meanest thing I ever released
They are one of the meanest animals of all in the wild...

I would not want to trap and deal with one...

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They are the meanest thing I ever released
We used a large wash tub to release one that we caught back in the early 80's. Put it over him and he calmed down real good. Left the trapped paw sticking out under the tub and released it and ran back to the truck. When we left he was still under the tub. We came back about an hour later, he was gone. We tried using a catch pole the first time getting him out. When I finally got the cable around his neck and thought I could choke him down it was like trying to subdue a concrete block with teeth and claws, so we got the tub and it worked real good


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Re: There's badgers....... #25348
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Never seen one here in the wild. h.h.


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Originally posted by Yaz:
I lived along Big Blue River close to Carthage for a time, and there was an entire liter under an old barn. I think all of the young ones got it on the road. Also seen one on more than one occasion while working on what is now the DOC facility North of New Castle. Right across the river from Wilbur Wright.
thats my stomping grounds. blue river from carthage to shelbyville. grew up just outside of gwynneville


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11/22/2014 04:55 AM
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A friend trapped one as an incidental catch in eastern Greene County in the very late'70's or early 80's when we were kids in school. CO helped him release. Actually pretty close to where the mountain lion was had on trail cam in 2010. Never seen one in the wild either.


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I have seen some live ones and sign (holes) where I trap. I HOPE I never have to turn one loose.


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