A badger found himself stuck inside a bright blue compost bin after trying to scavenge for some food.
He climbed inside the open top in search of a snack, but then couldn’t get back out.
Luckily, his head was spotted poking out from the bin and the RSPCA was called in to help.
Rescuer Louis Horton rushed to Guildford, Surrey, on November 24.
He said: ‘The green plastic compost bin would normally have a lid secured on top but this inquisitive and hungry badger had spotted an opportunity for what he thought would be an easy meal and clambered in through the open top.
‘The compost bin was around 2ft tall and narrower at the top so although the poor little guy could poke his head out of the top, he couldn’t squeeze himself up and out.
‘I used some power tools to carefully cut the top of the plastic away and lift him out.’
The badger went to Wildlife Aid Foundation for a check-up before being released two days later.
His story was shared as part of a round-up of the year’s strangest rescues from the RSPCA, which include an iguana on a roof and a gecko which stowed away in someone’s bra from a Barbados holiday.
Read the full round-up here.
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