Family favourite: The picky creatures have turned their noses up when offered other foods A family of badgers is causing a sensation at a hotel where they turn up every night for a bowl of cornflakes.
The usually shy creatures appear in the grounds at 9pm without fail, to gorge on what has apparently become their favourite breakfast cereal.
It has been a regular occurrence at the five-star Enchanted Manor, near Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight, for the past four years.
Late breakfast: The badgers tuck in to their cornflakes at Isle of Wight hotel.Now Kellogg's has pledged to supply the hotel with cornflakes for free so the friendly animals don't go hungry.
Maggie Hilton, who runs the Enchanted Manor with husband Ric, said: 'We started putting left-over scraps from breakfast out for the badgers.'They would grab most of the food and immediately run away to eat it.
'But, strangely, they would stay to eat the cornflakes.
'They seemed calmer when they were eating the cereal and stayed around for much longer.
'They are really fussy and I have tried putting out other cereals but they turn their noses up at them.
'They are really tame and friendly.
'Our guests can't believe their eyes when they creep out of the woods every night and into our garden.'
A spokesman for Kellogg's said: "We are delighted that our cornflakes are bringing the guests at the hotel closer to nature by encouraging the badgers in to the garden.
'And we pledge to supply free cornflakes to the animals so they can continue to enjoy their favourite breakfast cereal.'
Badgers usually eat earthworms, insects, and grubs as well as small mammals and birds, roots annd fruit.
source: dailymail
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