Triplets are doing fine!


The badger cub season started early this year with the arrival of three very small cubs found in North Wales.


We had a telephone call late on a Saturday night to tell us that a landowner had found the cubs crying in a metal drum. They had gone to visit land where they are building a house to inspect any damage from recent floods. They were drawn to the drum on its side by the noise. They checked the four setts that they have on their land and soon realised that three of them had been flooded. The sow had obviously moved the cubs to safety. Quite rightly they left the cubs for


a few hours to see if the mother returned but by the afternoon the cubs


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had become very chilled and the people decided to take them home.


They thought that they had left it too late as the cubs were very quiet and hardly moving but the warmth of the car soon revived the cubs and by the time they were home they were all squealing quite loudly!! They came to us by a relay of response drivers as it was 6 hours away and when they arrived I really thought that they had been mistaken. The cubs were so small that just for a minute I thought they were


rabbits. They were the smallest cubs we had ever seen weighing only


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