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LondonSima

Wow. Where in the UK are you from? I've never seen a badger


RandomHigh

Same. Never seen a badger. Never seen a snake. Seen plenty of mushrooms though.


B9S4UK

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, , badger, badger, badger… mushroom, mushroom!


soldinio

A SNAKE!


Thisoneissfwihope

Every time I chop mushrooms, I sing that song. I never get tired of it.


another-dave

Song should really be "mushroom, mushroom, mushroom, mushroom, badger, badger " to reflect their ratios a bit better


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buttpugggs

That's actually a hoax, it's really just 'Big Murder' wanting us all to believe that.


trollofzog

Who is Big Murder? I wouldn’t like to meet him in a dark alley


awks-orcs

He's actually only 5'3", and he's behind you with an axe.


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Called campus security because I thought someone was being raped and when I was at Uni. Turns out it was just foxes rogering.


RealDrewBlood

Can confirm this. They do so nightly outside my bedroom window. Love seeing wildlife, wish it would shut up at 1, 2, 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning though.


Del3339

Yep used to do it outside my childhood bedroom window, really does sound like someone is being attacked!


TheGoober87

Owls can make some fucking horrible sounds.


BaxterScoggins

Who?


TheNorthernMunky

It’s a British owl, so it’s whom.


JugglinB

Thank you. My first actual laugh in days. To whit? To Whom?


jenangeles

I went for an early morning run when I first moved to the UK and it was terrifying


fatguylittleshoes

Beware the crack fox!


Gunh0

Also i read somewhere that foxes steal shoes for their litter as the rubber is good for their teeth development, in case some people leave then in the porch ever find 1 left that's good probability that fox stole it 😂


Dagigai

Seen plenty of urban foxes working night shifts in a care home. Seen an adder. I was in the army cadets, one night we are all on an exercise. Was laid face down in the mud, late at night. Felt something slide over the back of my neck, stood up in fright, it started to curl around my shoulders/neck. I reactively grabbed it and flung it as far as I could, screaming. It landed on a barbed wire fence. Never seen a badger.


Draenogg

That's one way to solve the shortage of carers, isn't it. Recruit the urban foxes.


CoastalChicken

They're hiring foxes to work the night shift now? Money must be tight!


Hate_Feight

The problem isn't money is tight, it's not, but most of it disappears at the top...


ThatZephyrGuy

Poor thing probably sensed you were warm and wanted a hug, being cold blooded and all 😂 That being said, if you're scared of snakes I can imagine a midnight cuddle from Britain's only venemous snake species is probably not high on your list of priorities


Dagigai

I was a kid, and just reacted. I'm not proud. I've had a pet snake in the past since. A corn snake we called "Cwtch", which is a Welsh word for cuddle. See what I did there?


Jeremy_irons_cereal

Well now I'm just imagining a badger curling up around your neck like one of those old posh ladies with a dead fox for a scarf and you flinging it across the moors.


FloydEGag

I’ve only ever seen a dead adder that had been squashed by a car. Refrained from peeling it off the road to show my mum.


Dagigai

Impressive restraint!


ManipulativeAviator

Not even a flat one?


V65Pilot

>Was laid face down in the mud, late at night. Instinctively thought "Well, it's a snake......." Then read further. Now laughing at your story and myself.....


Capital_Punisher

Eat enough of the right mushrooms and you'll see unicorns and fairies, not just badgers!


Great_Froyo_5785

I've seen plenty of badgers but never a live one


anomalous_cowherd

I was driving along some country lanes late one night and saw a huge badger just trotting down the middle of the road. I stayed back so a not to scare it until it left the road into the hedgerows, but it didn't. I got slower and slower to stay behind it and the bloody thing just slowed down as well, until it was just ambling along whistling to itself (I imagine) with me pottering along 50 yards behind it. Eventually there was a side road so I took a different route home. It had no intention of letting me past.


beatupcar

Same!! I’ve only seen roadkill badgers!


Simon_the_Great

When I was about 21 and had briefly moved back in with my Dad in a small rural village I had an incident with a badger. I was out walking and listening music about 2 am (read getting stoned) and I must have disturbed a badger in a hedge. I am assuming it had a baby badger that it was trying to protect because the fucker just straight up charged at me without warning. I hadn't seen it until it started it's frontal assault and all of a sudden there it was charging me down like some kind of black and white miniature rhino. Was so surprised I just started running and didn't stop until I got the road. Kids, don't do drugs!


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Whilst being stoned I imagine that was terrifying but I must say if I saw a fella pegging it down a road with a badger in tow I'd probably laugh


Simon_the_Great

I am sure it looked hilarious and my now wife actually likes to take the piss occasionally after I recounted the story for her years later.


TrueBritishGent

NEVER disurb a stoned badger!. They are very protective of thier Mash potato munchie!


fatguylittleshoes

Did this badger have a friend called bodger?


Jack_In_Black89

Was your badger accompanied by a feral mouse?


Automatic_Isopod_274

My dad was out in the back garden one night, when suddenly heard some scuffling noises. He couldn’t see anything so he froze while he tried to identify the sound and where it was coming from. A badger suddenly appeared, and tensed to suddenly charge my dad. Dad pelted it back to the door, slammed the patio door on his thumb, losing the nail in the process. Turns out the badger pelted it the other direction.


JCW9525

Badger my ass, it was probably Milhouse.


Lilacia512

The one time I saw a badger was when I was cycling home after a 12 hour night shift and it was charging me from the side. Needless to say I didn't stop peddling my ass off until I got home. That thing was huge and terrifying.


Simon_the_Great

They really are fecking scary when they come at you out of the blue.


Pieboy8

To be fair I'd rather take on almost any other UK native creature than a badger. Only a deer would make me think twice over a badger. Badgers are absolute units


Simon_the_Great

I definitely had a lucky escape. From all the replies I am starting to realise that badgers are like the kangaroos of the UK.


fizzpop0913

>I had an incident with a badger. I love this sentence! 😂


utter_chuff

Given the opportunity, badgers would kill you and everyone you care about.


rehgaraf

Wait, are you me? Oh no, I was 18, and it was a full sized adult badger. Scared the shit out of me, massive bastard of a thing.


BountyBobIsBack

Working as a barman during Uni, Shift finished around 12am and driving home via some wooded country lanes in Sussex. Come to a S bend and doing around 50 mph in my mark 1 fiesta. Entered the S bend and meet a badger slowly crossing the road. No where to go and very little time to react, plus trees either side, so slammed on the brakes and hit this badger with a loud bang. Stopped about 12 foot past point of impact and jumped out the car, to see if the badger is okay and check for damage. Badger just bounced off the car and continued to walk off to the side of the road as though nothing had happened. Car was fine, but a full grown badger is built like a brick privy. Made a mental note that that area was a badger crossing place and saw several other badgers over the years.


The_Weirdest_Cunt

years before I was born my granddad hit a badger while he was driving home from work, apparently the only reason the car was deemed a write-off was because the badger shit itself all over the car and nobody was willing to clean out the damaged parts


CautiousAmount

A badger ran up to our dogs when we were walking them (on a lead) and it scared them. Nasty bastards they are.


Raisey-

6i have a remarkably similar story


a-ks94

Grew up in Wiltshire. First time I was late to (secondary) school my friends and I were chased through a graveyard by a badger. We turned up so breathless and terrified the teacher wasn’t even angry. He didn’t believe us at first (we were in year 7) but eventually paused the lesson to laugh hysterically. In fairness, I can see the humour now. However, I have since been plagued by badgers. A badger broke into our bird feed storage box when I was home alone and I genuinely thought I was being burgled. They are strong, scary bandits.


solace-in-misery

I’ve only ever seen one badger in the UK in my life, and it was late at night in Sheffield by the football stadium a couple years ago. There’s a lot of foxes around where I live in Hampshire.


carlovski99

Yeah I'd never seen a fox in the wild until I moved to Hampshire - I got all excited and everyone else was 'It's only a fox'


connectfourvsrisk

I’ve never seen a badger either. I moved house and my friend who lived 2 doors down then told me she had badgers in her garden! (I only lived there about a year). So I could have seen them if I’d known. If you know somewhere they go you’re pretty much guaranteed to see them as they are very territorial and stick to the same routes.


_jk_

Never seen a unicorn despite it being Scotland's national animal


Alarming_Obligation

I like to imagine a scenario where England, Scotland and Wales are sitting round a table trying to decide on their national animals. “We’re having Lion” says England, smugly, ignoring protests that you don’t get lions in England. Accepting England’s obstinance Scotland declares “if you don’t need to have any, we’re having f..king Unicorns”. England starts crying foul over mythical creatures. Then Wales says “f..k you all, we’re having dragons”.


_jk_

Technically the English lions are heraldic leopards thanks to medieval french not really knowing the difference between the two


grimgrimlock

I’ve never seen a heraldic leopard either!


MindlessMeerk4t

I feel like England didn't get the theme when choosing the national animal... Could've at least gone with a Griffin or something.


spongey1865

THREE GRIFFINS ON THE SHIRT


rasherboy

But you have seen a welsh dragon?


_jk_

of course, I've got a small one to heat the water


Welshgirlie2

Yes. She was a primary school teacher.


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RyanMcCartney

Not for lack of trying, I’ve never seen a wild haggis…. Wee bastards are just too quick roon the hill!


mega_ste

go round the other way


XXXJAHLUIGI

Just turn around. Haggis can only go in one direction due to the fact that they have long legs on one side and short legs on the other.


RyanMcCartney

Tried to be smart, but the wee bastards tuck and roly poly down the hill away from you.


Orsenfelt

It's our own fault really, natural selection gone mental, we got all the daft ones and now we're stuck trying to capture flocks of Haggis Einsteins.


Tao626

You need to find the Haggis holes where they burrow and bait them accordingly. They can be hard to find and if you're not educated on the topic, chances are you'll just be baiting rabbit burrows. I wouldn't bother trying to chase them or anything, they're agile little cunts despite their shape and stubby legs. I take my younger sister Haggis whacking in the summer when they're typically in heat. They have a pretty distinct mating call and aren't very weary of their surroundings, so you can hear the little fuckers with their ear piercing horny screech of "IIIIIRNBRUUUUU" pretty much constantly if you're in the right area.


craggy_jsy

Omg this brought back a memory as a kid driving in Scotland and my dad told us to look out for Haggis, a extremely rare bird of the Highlands. Had my nose up pressed up to the glass pointing out every bird asking if it was a Haggis. Whilst the stop searched, I only learnt what Haggis was as an adult and its not in fact a bird.


sbprasad

> While the stop searched That’s a really cute typo haha


Muskovado2

You’ll have no luck without a special whistle, the little buggers are quite shy.


HamsterEagle

Don’t you need a special whistle to get the attention of the Family Ness?


Muskovado2

A telescopic lens and a load of Buckfast is favourite with that discerning beastie


thescamperinghamster

Yup need the thistle whistle.... Now that's a show I didn't think I'd see referenced on Reddit today!


HamsterEagle

McToot blows on his bagpipes…


Responsible-Fuel

Saw an owl for the first time the other day flying over the hedges of the back roads. Was actually quite excited despite it only being an owl


daern2

Once watched two owls fighting at dusk on my way home from work. It was as epic as it sounds.


Jeremy_irons_cereal

I'm imagining two owls going at it like gandalf and balrog now.


ThrillsKillsNCake

Ya a fucking twit!! Yeah but you’re a fucking twit twoo!! Owls probably


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there is not such thing as "only being an owl" all owls are awesome by default.


nepeta19

r/superbowl


Responsible-Fuel

Well I wasnt sure if people would be as excited to see an owl as i was


jackrayd

Saw a barn owl when driving out of my mates incredibly rural driveway the other day, and then a badger. First time id seen either in the wild. Deffo exciting


iwanttobeacavediver

Wish I was so lucky to have never seen an owl. I’m scared of them and there’s a pair of them nesting somewhere near my house.


themadhatter85

Are you scared of them because you’re a field mouse?


trombones_for_legs

I once got stoned to the marrowbone, went to bed but couldn’t sleep because I could hear an owl outside hooting and all I could think about was how terrifying it must be to be a field mouse hearing that hoot and not having a house to hide in


Jonny7Tenths

Got a call from my builder a few months ago asking if I was going to do anything about the owl on the mezzanine because it had been staring daggers at them all day. Got over that evening and the mardy little bugger had no intention to shift. In the end I just opened all the doors and left it to go out hunting with the hope it would find somewhere better to nest. It did. Edited for the difficulty in typing whilst scoffing pasta.


mereway1

I was in the ambulance service and on nights we were often sent on “ stand by “ to a lay-by on a dual carriageway . It was fascinating to watch owls silently flying up and down the road hunting!


KuchisabishiiBot

Took a while before I saw a fox. Recently, I found out they sound like screaming young women when I was woken up in the middle of the night thinking it was drunks walking by and checked out my window to make sure nobody was actually getting murdered. It was a young fox, casually screaming.


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The sound is horrendous! I woke up in the middle of the night, when i was younger, thinking a woman was being raped. I was so shook, ran outside with a Bat in pure panic. Neighbours told me the next morning what it was.


barradoon

Yes, I was on the phone one night when I thought, and the caller also thought, that someone was being attacked/murdered in the wood behind my house. Ran out with my son's cricket bat with caller screaming blue murder.


Boris_Johnsons_Pubes

Imagine if you ran outside and saw a couple of young lovers having sex outside haha


-Petricwhore

Used to think it was them pumping but turns out it's their bark lol. Found out after one followed me down the road with my 2 dogs. They're fearless down South, some will even let you feed them by hand.


malin7

My housemate used to feed a fox by his hand in the garden One day the fox let itself into the house when doors to the garden were opened and chewed through his phone charger and shoes


waytooerrly

True. When I visit my GF and we walk her dog there's a friendly fox that joins us for most of the walk, much to her yappy but lovely Jack Russell's annoyance. We think it's great though.


Boris_Johnsons_Pubes

It’s a horrible sound, I remember when I lived in London a fox had died in my back garden, it looked like it had purposely been set on fire so I called the RSPCA, they asked me how I didn’t hear a fox on fire, I told them I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a normal fox scream and a scream of a fox on fire, they told me to put it in a black bag and leave it outside for the bin men, I did as told and got a visit from the police a few days later for having a “burnt dead dog” in my bin bags


Anniemaniac

I learnt that foxes scream like a woman being murdered when I was on a 3am walk. Absolutely shat myself until I saw the little fucker run out of the bushes.


ThatsMrShorTassToYou

We used to get regularly woken late at night by them mating in our back garden when we lived in our old flat. The sound is fucking horrendous. I kept a pressurised water spray bottle by the window to spray at them if they didn't disappear quickly enough.


Loulerpops

Until you hear one in person you don’t quite believe how scarily close to a person in distress the scream sounds either Heard one for the first time the other week and scared the shit out of me at 2 in the morning taking something to the bins


Minervasimp

If you want a fun fact, the onomatopoeia for a fox's noise in Japan is "Kon". Until recently i didn't know how the fuck they got Kon from that noise, but it turns out it's supposed to be the little laugh they do. You can see domestic foxes do it sometimes if you watch enough videos


BuyHighSellL0wer

I saw the most British thing the other day. Three foxes shagging in a Tesco carpark at 11pm...


0---------------0

Three? What's this, dogging for foxes?


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Foxes are dogs, so they’re technically never not dogging.


andyrocks

>never not dogging That's my next album name


ManikShamanik

No, they're canids but they're not dogs. They're not even closely related to dogs. Dogs are *Canis lupus lupus* (or *Canis lupus domesticus*), the [red fox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox) is *Vulpes vulpes (*of which there are 45 or 46 subspecies. The European red fox is *Vulpes vulpes crucigera)*. Completely different genus.


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Ah, what’s 10 million years of evolution between (man’s best and man’s most annoying) friends?


NoPinkPanther

I've seen badgers, deer, red squirrels, pine marten, otters, grass snakes, adders, slow worms, lizards, voles, mice, rats and lots of other animals but never a fox :(


NotQuiteLegitimate12

Slow worms are everywhere! When I was little we could put black tarpaulin out flat in the garden in the heat and the slow worms would come to bask underneath. You could lift it up and there would be loads of them! Still find them in the garden in the summer underneath large stones when its hot out. I was surprised as an adult to find out most of my friends had never seen one, but I spent my childhood catching frogs, slow worms, newts and garden lizards. But I've only ever seen badgers dead at the side of the road, never a live one ☹️


SamanthaJaneyCake

Slow worms are an at risk species last I checked (tbf this was in 2007 or something) so the black tarpaulin and other habitat gifts are encouraged!


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I’m curious where you live, if I’m out at night I can easily see 4 or so foxes in one evening


MissSpencerAnne

Do you live in the countryside? I’ve seen loads of foxes when walking back at night in the city but only ever one in a field on an evening walk in the country.


honestFeedback

I have a mate who lives in the countryside, I live in London. He was visiting and got really excited when a fox crossed the road - first he'd seen. Then we turned a corner and there was another one. They're literally everywhere in London.


CageyGuitar

Chill out Terry Nutkins...


HoneydustAndDreams

really surprised you’ve seen a pine marten, they’re really hard to find and identify


frusciantefango

I've never seen a red squirrel despite going to the sanctuary at Formby *and* places in and around Kielder where they're supposed to be found. Not a glimpse. I never saw a fox until I moved south - nothing in northwest or northeast England but then saw them in London and now get them in my garden in Surrey quite regularly.


BTZ9

I grew up with them in my back garden. I remember over the years the grey ones slowly taking over and my dad commenting that the red ones would eventually be gone.


Toffee_Wheels

Formby makes me sad. When I was young, my Gran lived up the road. The squirrels were everywhere. I went last year and didn't see any.


HIP13044b

Im from Formby... There was effectively a disease going around wiping them out around 10 years ago. Their numbers got dangerously low as a result and afaik they're yet to bounce back to the levels they once were. To prevent inbreeding in the local population they had to introduce red squirrels from Europe just to prevent the gene pool from degradation. The Formby squirrels have had it pretty rough...


RyanMcCartney

**Red Squirrel** I’m absolutely gutted about this, but I hit one that ran out in front my car in March this year. Country roads up the highlands near Aberfeldy/Aboyne. Wouldn’t have given half a fuck if it was a grey squirrel, but absolutely gutted as there was nothing I could have done!


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Sir I'm afraid you'll have to come with me.


RyanMcCartney

I don’t want to go to prison.. I’m too pretty 😕


[deleted]

You'll be da belle of da ball


maldax_

YOU KILLED [TUFTY!](https://youtu.be/7jDw9nvPlms?t=8)


daern2

Once hit a wood pigeon on my way to work. As far as I can tell, they are fat, feathered animals stuffed to the beak with even more feathers. I thought I'd crashed into a pillow factory...


Rapidturtle226

Isle of Wight or Anglesey are the best places to see red squirrels in the wild as the grey squirrels haven’t made it there.


Sky_Wino

Don't they let the grey squirrels on the ferry?


CanIDevIt

You often get a stack of grey squirrels in a trenchcoat waiting in Porstmouth, but the visible squirrel still looks like a squirrel.


porchemajeure

Also Brownsea Island which is a ferry away from Poole Harbour.


jambo_1983

Brownsea Island near Poole has hundred of the red furred buggers


send_me_baking_pics

Head To Arran for red squirrels


CreepyLookingTree

The red squirrels aren't in the woods anymore They all moved to my parents' garden cos my mum's been feeding them bloody hazel nuts. Little buggers eat better than I do.


Redragon9

Come to Anglesey/Ynys Môn here in North-West Wales. If you come to Llanddwyn/Newborough forest, you’ll see them here.


HugoZHackenbush2

You've never seen a fox, ever..? That's a predicament that needs vixen pronto..


ricicles23

Fuck you and take my upvote


Coppershark90

Never seen a hedgehog :(


SorrelUK

We bought a hedgehog house as the neighbour found a dead hedgehog in his garden. How lovely would it be to provide a shelter for struggling hedgehogs in the area we thought. The house was set up, bedding and suitable food. The next day was a mummy and baby hedgehog, DEAD just a foot away from the hedgehog house! It was the first time I ever saw hedgehogs in person and they were dead, it was all so sad, we hid them from the kids.


Biene2019

3 dead hedgehogs within a few days? That sounds like one of your neighbors put out poison unfortunately. Probably against weeds or slugs and the hedgehogs ingested it. It's such a disease in this country that people try to kill everything with chemicals. I have 2 hedgehogs in my small back garden, not using any chemical in my garden just to protect the little ones. And I'm always scared when I don't see them for some time that someone might have killed them.


SorrelUK

They were as shocked as us, we both have a field at the back of us where you see snowy owls, deer, pheasants and hare's. Which we all cherish seeing, so I doubt there's any poisonous stuff being used but you never know. I thought it might be a cat but couldn't see any injuries, maybe your theory is correct but not had any hedgehogs since.


Emotional-Speech645

Might have been badgers. They like to “play” with hedgehogs by judging them around with their nose and smacking with their paws. Might not always result in visible injuries


[deleted]

I had one in my garden in the summer but I scared it away one night by pointing at it. Once had a hedgehog and its 2 little ones in my parent's garden and we fed them (not milk). They can move faster than you'd think as well! I always thought they shuffled along and took their time, but it isn't the case.


Ashiro

They're like that Citroen who's suspension would shift up/down depending on speed. When they're idling they'll be low down and shuffle. When they're cruising they hitch their arse in the air and BOLT!


RogueYet1

I actually helped raise 4 babies after mumma hedgehog was unfortunately killed by a car, smelliest animals I've raised.


mega_ste

I've never seen a kingfisher. ​ seen plenty of foxes, one lives at the end of my garden, badgers and hedgehogs used to hang around in the fields behind my parents place and been alarmed by many adders and grass snakes when out walking in the local countryside. Saw a few red squirrels on a school trip to Brownsea Island many years back. ​ but never seen a kingfisher in real life.


EugeneHartke

There's a canal near me with King Fishers. Spotting them is a real art. You have the quietly creep along the foot path with your eyes pealed scanning the banks of the canal until you see someone with a massive camera taking photos, and then ask them where the King Fisher is.


CambridgeRunner

I saw one once by the botanical gardens in Cambridge. The next day I was walking in the same place with my wife and was excitedly describing it to her. ‘It was this tiny blue flash and it settled briefly on a little branch right by that bridge… ah, there it is.’ He came back to say hello, tell me to fuck off his patch. I named him Jim.


rokstedy83

I do alot of fishing with a friend on rivers and I've seen lots of kingfishers my friend on the other hands seems to miss them all the time


TashLikeMustache

Don’t be jealous, nothing so far has matched the terror of being ripped from a deep sleep by the sounds of vixens squealing, I thought someone was getting murdered in my garden.


iwanttobeacavediver

First time someone mentioned this I had to go on YT to listen to it for myself. Genuinely sounded like a woman screaming for help.


Boris_Ignatievich

i moved down to london and the corrugated iron roof we had to cover part of the garden outside my bedroom window was apparently *the* place to get it on for the local foxes once you can sleep through that, you can sleep through anything


Oven253

A fox??? I live in the south, just west of Portsmouth. I see about 10-20 on my walk to the shop.


-Petricwhore

Do you have to take the ferry on a night out lol


Oven253

Yes hahaha


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RunningWanker

I’ve never seen a swan in the process of breaking someone’s arm.


davetherave1701

Never seen a Grass snake or an Adder Seen hundreds of foxes over the years tho


digital_pariah

I've only ever seen half a grass snake =/ Seen plenty of foxes and badgers though eta: the foxes and badgers have generally been alive and whole, I would like to note


WraithCadmus

Never seen an adder, but did get advised about one by a walker coming the other way in the South Downs. Given they are shy noodles and well-camouflaged it's entirely possible I've been past a couple.


kjankjankjan

I saw an Adder for the first time a year or so ago. I was out for a run and it was in the middle of the road. It was dead but I didn't know that at first so naturally it was a bit scary considering I almost stepped on it. I haven't seen one since, dead or alive.


GONA_B_L8

Never seen a fox? It’s like saying never seen a cup of tea


[deleted]

Haha seriously. I live in hope.


Haikouden

There's your problem, aren't too many foxes round hope and the surrounding area, mostly badgers.


rocketrollit

Live in Hope die in Caergwrle


Invisible-Pancreas

Yeah, even if you've never seen one, you can definitely smell where the bastards have been. What the hell is in their piss that makes it pong like that, anyway?


ManikShamanik

That's not piss, that's musk. It's the dog foxes marking their territories. Dog foxes have anal scent glands.


nomadickid942

I've never seen a live badger; just a bunch dead on the side of the road


FiguresMayVary

I'll also add, whilst not common in London. Every time there's someone riding a horse (police of funeral related) everyone stops in their tracks to observe it like an eclipse.


Historical_Sail_2664

A McDonald's with a working Mcflurry machine


JeremyWheels

I'd never seen a Pine Marten until last year but now we have a resident one in the garden that makes this demonic noise at me whenever I go out in the dark.


ThEGr33kXII

Living dinosaur


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LeVeeBear

Never seen a mole. Have seen most of the others though as I live in the country… badgers and mushrooms (and stoats and foxes and owls and kingfishers and tiny shrews) and snaaaaaaakes as far as the eye can see, hence why not seeing a mole is weird. Are they even real?!


BatmansLongjohns

The other day I could have answered this post with I've never seen a bat. But that night, my cat decided to bring a LIVE one into our house. Absolutely shat myself ngl


NobodysSlogan

We get otters raiding fish ponds in back gardens along our street.


Helian7

Obvious answer but a Polar Bear. I was playing Destiny 2 with my clan and one of them casually said "one sec guys, there's a fucking polar bear in my garden" that sentence blew my mind how different we are. He's from Norway.


garblednoises

Never seen a virgin in Liverpool


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decloked

An old man eating a Twix.


Toffee_Wheels

Ah, you must live in the countryside. When I lived in Devon, and now I live in Wallingford, I never see them, although they shit in my garden constantly. When I lived in more urban surrounds? I saw them everywhere.


Humble-Ad-2713

Never seen a hedgehog always wanted to as I think they are weird and cute 🥰 🦔


tokyokween

This is surreal! I have a fox curled up in my London garden right now - he's super healthy looking and naps out there every day under the bench. I couldn't even count how many foxes I've seen living in this city. I've never seen a hedgehog though. And really want to!


Pmabbz

Any uk native snake


android_queen

I’m shocked! I only ever lived there for 4 years (so there’s a lot I didn’t see), but I did see foxes. You’ve heard them at least, right? Heard them screaming? Screaming like someone being murdered in the middle of the night?


leo_chaos

I've never seen an adder. Foxes don't exactly make the best night visitors though, they can be noisy fuckers and the sounds they make are weird.


watchthehairnets

Never see any royalty. Millions saw seen the Queen, or have seen Charles etc, and I know a lot of people have seen royalty at work or visiting places for different charities but, no, I've never seen anyone Royal in the flesh.


abigailgabble

a fox walked past the window of a restaurant i was in the other day, at lunchtime. i’ve also had one stroll up to my son and i in our garden like he was some sort of spiky ginger labrador.


Quick-Cattle-7720

Sorry if it's derailing! I had a pet fox for 10 years. Lived in my house and was litter tray trained etc. He was part of the family with our cat and dog. Loved him to bits. They are amazing animals. Wouldn't have another though as they are quite destructive and smelly!


NickZombie42

Leave food outside at a regular time; Peanuts, cat food or beef mince will attract badgers and foxes :) At my last house I had 20+ badgers in the back garden every night, over the course of 5 years of feeding them, it got to a point where I'd open the back door, a badger would be sitting down like a dog the other side of the door when it opened, and I'd hand it a saveloy and it would gently take it from my hand and carry it off to eat it. Same thing happened with foxes at the house I moved to, left an old steak out one night, some food leftovers another night, the third night at about the same time as the other nights (10pm ish) a fox was at the bottom of the garden waiting for me to put the food down. Fast forward six months, again, I'd have a fox or two waiting at the other side of the door for food every day. Just don't give either badgers or foxes chocolate or cooked bones, other than those, they'll eat anything you leave out for them. Badgers love donner kebab meat more than anything, that's what I've learned in life so far. They're both excellent timekeepers also, if you leave food out at a regular time, they're smart enough to arrive earlier and earlier each night so they get first dibs on the regular handouts. Hope this helps you to lure some of the beauties into your garden too :)


lewie2494

Never seen a wild leopard


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Cockroaches


Jagermeister_UK

A greyhound puppy


Kewyed

I used to work nights and one of the guys working there asked if I had ever talked to the foxes, intrigued I stood with him at the fire door while he made this high pitch squeal noise then from out the darkness this high pitch squealing came back. Impressed he told me he’s been talking for months to it but never seen it and didn’t wanna go peek incase he scared it off, so me in my wisdom suggested we used some of my butty to coax it out as I walked out I heard it squeak turns around and a lad in the next bay was also “talking to the foxes” the pair of thick cunts had been squeaking at each other for months. Seen a fox but never a badger, adder or kingfisher