28-05-2020, 02:37 PM
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The laboratory where I worked at near Hertford is based at an old Palladian mansion with an open air swimming pool in the grounds for the staff to use. One morning, one of the security staff found a drowned badger in it - yeuk!
28-05-2020, 02:44 PM
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Ewww
how horrid, I don't have a water butt, I wish I had...one with a lid 
When I lived in a house with a cattle grid we had numerous hedgehogs falling into the void and needing rescue . Eventually, a ramp was built to enable them to escape.
28-05-2020, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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Ewww how horrid, I don't have a water butt, I wish I had...one with a lid When I lived in a house with a cattle grid we had numerous hedgehogs falling into the void and needing rescue . Eventually, a ramp was built to enable them to escape.
28-05-2020, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by TessA
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Not anything furry, but my friend's husband fished a dead puff adder out out the swimming pool when I lived in S. Africa.I went to make a second round of teas for Art Club members and found a large stewed spider in the kettle, we all felt rather ill afterwards.
Pity your squirrel was waterlogged Art, you could've had it stuffed "rampant".
by a raptor of some kind??
You spider story is quite amusing and it puts me in mind ot a
time l was looking through the visitors book at one of the Kruger
park camps when l saw the complaint of one visitor ( must have
been british) that complained about finding frogs in the oven?
Ha! Ha!
Donkeyman! 😂😂😂
28-05-2020, 04:12 PM
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Sadly a dead hedgehog, in our greenhouse, years ago at my Parents house, before I left home. There was a sunken tank in the greenhouse, just by the door & it was full of water, someone left the door open & the hedgehog must have gone in for a drink & fell in & drowned. We made sure that the door was shut every time we went in it after that.28-05-2020, 08:06 PM
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The water in out water butt is stagnant and like yours a bit wiffy. Hopwever it still is the best, rain water that is, for the plants and also at air temperature. Water from the house via a hose is not a good idea being cold and going straight onto plants.
28-05-2020, 09:21 PM
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I had a very dear elderly neighbour friend when I lived at another address. One day she came across and said she'd found a dead squirrel in her water butt and would I remove it for her as she couldn't bear to do it.So I did.
A couple of weeks ago I found a dead mouse in an old plastic paint container I put under the outside tap. It's a tall container and I can only assume he climbed up the handle, which was hanging down the side, and fell in
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