How cats beat foxes to food in your garden - but badgers are the strongest of all
Badgers, hedgehogs, foxes and cats are fighting and having stand-offs over scraps left outside by the public
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Badgers, hedgehogs, foxes and cats are fighting and having stand-offs over scraps left outside by the public
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