A shocked homeowner found a cheeky badger had set up camp in their bedroom - after trashing the house.
The female badger had fallen from a wall into a courtyard area at the back of the house in the Ryde in the Isle of Wight.
She chewed through the back door to get inside before raiding the kitchen cupboards and tried to climb up the bedroom fireplace which bought a lot of ash down.
After making such a mess the homeowner thought they'd been burgled, the cheeky animal then headed upstairs and was found in a bin in the bedroom, rescuers said.
The homeowner, who was away for a couple of days, discovered the damage when they returned on Wednesday and called the Badger Trust Isle of Wight.
Rescuer Graham Lee said: "She was sleeping in an upturned bin when I went into the bedroom, I watched her walk around the room to make sure she wasn't injured and then caught her and put her into our badger cage and gave her a check over.
"She was a nice healthy weight so I asked a neighbour to help me carry the cage down the stairs and out onto the pavement where I gave her another check over and gave her a few minutes to get her bearings and then opened the cage.
"She trotted off up the pavement without a care in the world.
"We usually get calls about badgers living underneath houses, so it's very rare to get a call about a badger actually inside the house.
"What could be better than spending Valentine's evening in the bedroom with a badger?"
The female badger had fallen from a wall into a courtyard area at the back of the house in the Ryde in the Isle of Wight.
She chewed through the back door to get inside before raiding the kitchen cupboards and tried to climb up the bedroom fireplace which bought a lot of ash down.
After making such a mess the homeowner thought they'd been burgled, the cheeky animal then headed upstairs and was found in a bin in the bedroom, rescuers said.
The homeowner, who was away for a couple of days, discovered the damage when they returned on Wednesday and called the Badger Trust Isle of Wight.
Rescuer Graham Lee said: "She was sleeping in an upturned bin when I went into the bedroom, I watched her walk around the room to make sure she wasn't injured and then caught her and put her into our badger cage and gave her a check over.
"She was a nice healthy weight so I asked a neighbour to help me carry the cage down the stairs and out onto the pavement where I gave her another check over and gave her a few minutes to get her bearings and then opened the cage.
"She trotted off up the pavement without a care in the world.
"We usually get calls about badgers living underneath houses, so it's very rare to get a call about a badger actually inside the house.
"What could be better than spending Valentine's evening in the bedroom with a badger?"
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00:00 Wow! Wow! Hello Badger!
00:10 Hello Badger! What a mess you made Badger!
00:17 Can we get a photo here?
00:19 Yes.
00:20 Right, so we've just arrived and what we've got is what looks like we've been burgled.
00:28 But a kind of needless violence I think is the only way to describe it.
00:43 I don't quite know why they've sort of, it's not clear what, just a mindless vandalism I think is the only way to describe it.
00:55 Nothing, I don't know, except, okay so basically they've come through the back door, they seem to have busted in the back door
01:14 and they've thrown stuff around by the looks of it. They have, seems to be okay.
01:30 Why are they just sort of doing mindless vandalism like this? Very strange.
01:38 But they've basically totally trashed all of the back. Very odd.
01:46 I haven't yet figured out how they've come in yet. The bathroom here looks okay.
01:54 It's very strange, the sort of behaviour on this, it definitely feels like, can't really figure it out.
02:03 This is not just animal, this is not just animal that does this.
02:10 So people have been upstairs, there's signs of people having been upstairs and sort of scratching.
02:16 It looks like animals have been, it looks more like animals.
02:20 That's so weird. Totally trashed.
02:24 This definitely feels more animal and they've also seemed to have been in the chimney.
02:33 It's totally animalised. I don't quite know what's animal but it's incredibly, totally,
02:45 they've really gone for the sugars and things, they've really gone to town on this.
02:54 They didn't manage to get into Isla Rey's room which is good.
02:57 So that means, that means, okay so basically the living room and this room is fine.
03:02 So you and Gustav can sleep in here tonight and Isla Rey and I will sleep in the living room.
03:06 Okay. So this, yeah but this room is basically not being touched.