Nick Maclaren wrote:
The advice to avoid meat scraps is well-founded. I have seen two of
these daleks destroyed by badgers, after chop bones and the like.
Shredded, they were.

How do you know they weren't looking for worms - one of badgers'
main foods, and an unavoidable/essential component of compost?

I don't, really, other than the fact that other peoples bins weren't
attacked, and they hadn't put things in that smelled so strongly. Of
course, once the badger had learned what the tall things were...