"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
Also, if it's badger, if you run your fingers along the hair one way it
feels smooth and the other way distinctly coarse.

Personally, I think it is a rabbit.
We are being overrun by the blighters and little holes like you have
described are appearing all over the place (
At this time of year, you can often see them early in the morning, say
just after dawn, just before they bed down for the day!


Can't find any evidence being left, bar the holes. Have a look at these
pics I took, see if it means anything:

http://www.alanirl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/



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