First Badgers

[jwe 10]

I have a 2 year old Patterdale bitch that is starting to figure this ground work out. I have used her to retrieve shot badgers, that fall back in their holes, but never showed much interest in entering a hole. Went out the other night and caught one running down the two track. She chased it in a shallow hole and engaged, took a little abuse and I pulled her out shot the badger and let her go back in and chew on it. About 3 days later she found a fresh hole and entered spent 20 minutes under ground. I could hear the battle for about 15 minutes and all went quiet. I started digging and before I could get there she came out. Once again she took quite a bit of abuse but had a lot more blood on her than she was leaking. The main question I have is after being under ground she picked up a real hack. She hacked 20 times a day and puked up clear liquid for a couple days then just hacking. She was a little slow for a couple days but ate and drank normal. A week later she still has a mild hack. Is this just from eating a lot of dirt.

 

[TOPPER 1,809]

looking at that bite on the neck id say it took a crunch and has some windpipe damage it will cure itself in time

[Waz 4,266]

Maybe a bit of swelling pushing on throat or pipe.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Wasn't skunked was it .

[jwe 10]

Thanks for the input, she is back to as normal as she get. I do believe it was just a hard bite to the windpipe.

[Treehands. 1,379]

Now the hack is over, turn your attention to it only doing 20minutes.

 

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