Bashful Badger

Badgers are normally secretive creatures who are happiest in the quiet and solitude of night. Whilst digging extensions to their setts, they often find jewels and other odd things, but they are mostly content to live in family groups, enjoying each other's company; wealth means little to them.

When PnF was founded, a rumour spread through the pets that a spirit-badger had created the world in which they lived. Suddenly badgers were getting all kinds of visiting creatures wanting to know how the game of life should be played, what the Great Badger had planned for the future and whether all should eat worms in their efforts to be like Him.

Badgers responded in one of two ways. Some retreated further into their setts for fear that anyone might find out about their jewels, in which case they would never have any peace. Others accepted the challenge and went into the world as prophets, seeking to understand the rules of the game and to enlighten others as they strove to comprehend the thoughts of their creator, in whose image they had been made.

Your pet becomes an expert at finding its own food!

Well, let’s face it, it’s a tale as old as time. Some badger boys were sitting around the hill one day, when a pretty little thang walked by and caught their eye.

“Do you lift?” she asked, batting her lashes, and the badger boys scrambled to answer, “Boy, do I!”, “You bet I lift.”, “I could bench three of you, little darlin’!”, proceeding to strike their best poses.

After a demonstration of their skills, during which several boulders were lifted and dropped, a toe or two broken, the fair damsel cooed, “If you can lift more than me, I’ll let you catch my dinner.”

The game was on! The badger boys bumped chests, high-fived, snickered a bit, and eyed this pretty petal and wondered who would best her first.

In no time at all, the badger boys were beat, having lifted without much preparation, and panted on the ground at the sweet maid’s feet. Still, there was no way she was going to beat them! So, imagine their surprise when this bashful badger doll slowly cracked her back, her neck, and her knuckles, and demonstrated a dead lift that left the boys bamboozled!

“How’d you do it, doll?” they demanded to know.

“Patience,” she simpered, winking as she walked away, “persistence, and practice. You should try it some time.”

That was the day the competition was born.

Favorite food:

Open Can Of Worms

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