# Badgers ate our breakfast

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 4, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264 "2003-07-04T17:58:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264/21 "2003-07-05T05:33:46Z")

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The 1987 Audubon Nature Yearbook has an account of a mountain man who was kept awake by some badgers squealing and squalling during their mating season. He decided to handle the problem by approaching the badgers’ mating territory with a club. He said:

“Well, I got in one lick before they run me right back down the hill again. Let me tell you, don’t never mess around with a bunch of horny badgers.”

I guess those are words to live by.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264/22 "2003-07-05T09:21:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by casdave \*  
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> There is a good reason why those badger hunters take several large dogs with them, and shotguns.  
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I thought you hunted badgers with dachshunds. Doesn’t dachshund mean ‘badger dog’?

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**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264/23 "2003-07-05T13:22:05Z")

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I thought it meant ‘sausage dog’. All my dreams are shattered.

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**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264/24 "2003-07-05T14:40:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Blonde \*  
> \*\*Would love to see a puma/cougar/panther/catamount, though.

[ogden nash]  
Is the cougar tantamount to a catamount or paramount to a catamount?  
[/ogden nash]

I wouldn’t mind seeing one from inside a car. I’ve read too many accounts of these animals stalking hikers or mountain bike riders to be entirely comfortable being in cougar territory without a weapon.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-ate-our-breakfast/186264/25 "2003-07-05T21:14:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DocCathode \*  
> I thought you hunted badgers with dachshunds. Doesn’t dachshund mean ‘badger dog’?

Bravo **Doc** , quite right. Excerpts from [this](http://pets.yahoo.com/pets/dogs/breed/dachshund) site:

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> "… The Dachshund is clever, lively and **courageous to the point of rashness, persevering in above and below ground work** , with all the senses well-developed. **Any display of shyness is a serious fault** …
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> … The Dachshund was developed in Germany more than 300 years ago **to hunt badgers** …"

[sup]BOLDING ADDED[/sup]

I gotta add that you’d have to be pretty d@mn rash to voluntarily enter a badger’s burrow. This explains the kamikaze temperment of those little wiener dogs.

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