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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/29/badger-recovering-in-shelter-after-being-found-drunk-on-polish-beach
Badger recovering in shelter after being found drunk on Polish beach
Party animal discovered surrounded by seven empty beer bottles, along with two more hidden in bushes, believed to have been stolen from beachgoers
Teka supping from a pint in Gloucestershire
Wandzia is not the only badger to like a tipple. Teka was caught supping from a pint in Gloucestershire. Photograph: News service/Rex Shutterstock
Agence France-Presse in Warsaw
Wednesday 29 July 2015 14.17 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 29 July 2015 14.20 EDT
A female badger is recovering at a Polish animal shelter, two days after the party animal was found passed out on a beach having had too much to drink.
“Oh, youth. Oh, summer holidays,” animal shelter Dzika Ostoja joked on Wednesday in a Facebook post, detailing Wandzia the badger’s plight in the Baltic seaside resort town of Rewal.
“We found Wandzia drunk, surrounded by seven [empty beer] bottles. There were two more in the bushes, so it’s possible Wandzia began partying there. Haha.”
The badger is believed to have stolen the booze from fellow beachgoers, before removing the beer caps with her teeth.
The black and white omnivore was unconscious for two days, the shelter’s manager, Marzena Bialowolska, told AFP, adding that the badger had partially recovered but was still unable to sit up.
“She’s been sleeping, drinking water and eating chick meat,” said Bialowolska. If all goes well, Wandzia will be released back into the wild by the end of the week.
Wandzia is not the first of her kind to have experimented with alcohol. In 2009, German police were called to clear a road of a badger that was “drunk as a skunk” from gorging itself on over-ripe, fermented cherries.
Badger recovering in shelter after being found drunk on Polish beach
Party animal discovered surrounded by seven empty beer bottles, along with two more hidden in bushes, believed to have been stolen from beachgoers
Teka supping from a pint in Gloucestershire
Wandzia is not the only badger to like a tipple. Teka was caught supping from a pint in Gloucestershire. Photograph: News service/Rex Shutterstock
Agence France-Presse in Warsaw
Wednesday 29 July 2015 14.17 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 29 July 2015 14.20 EDT
A female badger is recovering at a Polish animal shelter, two days after the party animal was found passed out on a beach having had too much to drink.
“Oh, youth. Oh, summer holidays,” animal shelter Dzika Ostoja joked on Wednesday in a Facebook post, detailing Wandzia the badger’s plight in the Baltic seaside resort town of Rewal.
“We found Wandzia drunk, surrounded by seven [empty beer] bottles. There were two more in the bushes, so it’s possible Wandzia began partying there. Haha.”
The badger is believed to have stolen the booze from fellow beachgoers, before removing the beer caps with her teeth.
The black and white omnivore was unconscious for two days, the shelter’s manager, Marzena Bialowolska, told AFP, adding that the badger had partially recovered but was still unable to sit up.
“She’s been sleeping, drinking water and eating chick meat,” said Bialowolska. If all goes well, Wandzia will be released back into the wild by the end of the week.
Wandzia is not the first of her kind to have experimented with alcohol. In 2009, German police were called to clear a road of a badger that was “drunk as a skunk” from gorging itself on over-ripe, fermented cherries.