Badger found passed out on beer

A badger is recovering at an animal shelter after it was found passed out on a beach in Poland, surrounded by seven empty beer bottles.

Wandzia, a female badger, is believed to have stolen the bottles from beach-goers, and “removed the caps with her teeth”, as reported by The Guardian.

She proceeded to down the lot, passing out on the beach in the Baltic seaside town of Rewal before being rescued and taken to a nearby animal shelter.

“Oh, youth. Oh, summer holidays,” animal shelter Dzika Ostoja joked on in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

“We found Wandzia drunk, surrounded by seven [empty beer] bottles. There were two more in the bushes, so it’s possible Wandzia began partying there. Haha.”

Wandzia was unconscious for two days but is now awake and partially recovered, however she is still unable to sit up.

If her recovery continues, Wandzia will be released back into the wild by the end of the week.

Last month a hedgehog was found passed out in a gutter having downed a bottle of discarded advocaat. He too was taken in by an animal shelter and nursed back to health.

At the time, the animal shelter in Holland used the incident to warn people to look after their alcohol to ensure more animals are not injured.