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#badger

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Ellie Kennard

Ah! The joys of belonging to a corporate vet practice.
It's 9:50pm and we're sitting in the waiting room of an emergency vet clinic in the city over an hour drive from home.
We've been over an hour so far with no idea how much longer this will be. We'll be paying the big bucks to get Badger seen at the emergency clinic because our own vet has been at a conference and can't see their own patients. The exam fee is $180+ and then they'll 'draw up a plan of treatment and see where we go from there.'. Oh. And there will be a long wait because... It's an emergency clinic.. 5, 6, 7 hours?
😖
Badger's not that sick, she's not critical, it's just not advised to wait as it could become worse.
And I just heard someone saying that they had paid $30,000 on treatment for their Guinea pig.
??? What can you say?

Meanwhile we wait.

A black and cream cat with short, curly hair is looking through the cage door of a carrier.
#EllieKPosts#Caturday#Badger
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Different Than

Been working all day for #easter for my daughter. We're not religious. I don't know when this started, but for many years now my kid is visited every year by the Easter Badger. Important things about the Easter Badger:

  • Is totally real, unlike Santa, Easter Bunny, etc., who are fake and also stupid and EB finds them socially annoying

  • Spells very badly, including their own name

  • Steals all of daughter's candy and hides it in a complicated series of lockboxes and hiding places, with (badly-spelled) clues to the combinations and next stash of candy

  • Finds time to trash talk the Easter Bunny, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, et al. while writing clues in very bad penmanship

  • Does all of this out of love for my daughter

  • Also out of spite, vindictiveness, and to spread anti-Santa/Easter Bunny propaganda (a.k.a. "consciousness raising" or "accurate information")

Edit: This year the EB has gone digital (their HTML skills are almost as minimal as mine):

easterbadger.com

Most of the clues are on ultra-basic websites like this, which helps EB b/c I--I mean they--can adjust a clue while the hunt is on by editing a page:

easterbadger.com/purplepurpl.h

And I think it's set up so it's difficult (hopefully impossible) to see any of these pages without knowing and typing in the URL. My kid can do the latter, but neither of us are coders or webdevs so any advanced hacking is beyond us.

Note: They got very distracted with EB's use of physical padlocks for some puzzles so they've been picking locks for an hour. :) Happy moments.

#EasterBadger#badger#BetterThanSanta
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McNige 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Slowly increasing the brightness of my lighting so not to spook the badgers.
I was lucky that the 2 babies came out for dinner last night 🦡🥰
Even luckier to get a decent photo with the low light, long exposure and 2x moving targets.
Baby badgers - badglings, badglets, buppies, bittens (?)

Image shows 2x little baby badgers (badglings) eating away in a semi lit area of grass close to home - so lovely to see
#Wildlife#art#Photography
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McNige 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

I've been feeding a family of badgers through the years.
Recently my trap cam caught 2 youngsters & the mum coming to the garden.
I braved the freezing night air to stand and watch last night, It was so amazing to see, only one turned up but I'll try again tonight, hopefully it'll be a full turn out
The LED worked well to see what's going on
#Wildlife #art #Photography #Forest #Wood #Wild #loch #scotland #winter #nature #PhonePic #badger #badgers #phonephotography #night #mountain #edinburgh

Image shows a lone badger eating my dinner scraps and cat food. Lovely to see them coming so close, I put out an LED light turned down low you assist with seeing what's going on
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