One day last week an elderly lady from callington called me about a baby badger she had in her garden. She said it had been there for a couple of days and could I help. When I asked her if she could see any injuries, she said no, just that it was a small badger, the size of a small cat. She was a long way from me, the other end of Cornwall. I said to ring the rspca and tell them I had advised her to call them, as this was a young badger that seemed in difficulty. This she said she would do, she rang me back about 20 minutes later and told me the rspca said this was not there problem it wasn't injured and contained so it was therefore our problem i.e. the Badger Trust or Cornwall Badger Rescue and we had to take care of it as it wasn't there concern. I got hold of Kevin who sent his cousin to look as he was busy, his cousin said he could not get to it as it was well hidden under some leylandi trees. So Kevin said he would go in the morning which he did and managed to catch the cub, which he then took to the vets. The cub was very small only 1.3 kilos and would not have lasted much longer. He then took the cub back to his place and contacted the rspca and managed to get the cub picked up and taken to west hatch. But I don't think this is the sort of response to give an elderly lady she should get more help from the rspca. I find this very frustrating as they have large finances! but small organisations like the Cornwall Badger Rescue don't! we rely on donations and what we can make on stalls at country fairs to get us thought. So shortly if there is an animal of any kind they should do all in there power to get help to the animal as soon as possible.

Bob Speechley

Co-ordinator

Cornwall Badger Rescue

Brock Badger Group