A Warrington home is attracting wildlife to its doorstep every night

 Homeowner Clare Fairbrother provided the Warrington Guardian with footage captured from her security cameras of a cat-biscuit-loving badger scoffing her cat’s food straight from the bowl in the porch one night at her Latchford home.

Clare lives on Marsden Avenue in Latchford East and revealed that the presence of wildlife is not a new occurrence at her house.

“We have been having badgers visiting the garden for a few years but it’s only the last six months or so that they discovered our cats’ biscuits in our porch,” she said.

“One evening, I heard a loud clonking from the porch, so I checked the security cameras and saw it was a badger eating from the cat’s metal bowls.”

Since the badgers’ first discovery of the delicious crunchy treats months ago, they have visited the home ‘every evening since’, hungry for more.

 “We opened the door once to one but it ran off, this one in the footage is a different badger and has no fear,” Clare added.

The fascinating footage shows the badger rustling around the porch in search for more delicacies as Clare opens the front door to see her little visitor in the flesh. But despite the door opening the badger isn’t startled by her presence and continues to sniff around and explore.

But word has clearly spread in the wilderness, as it’s not just badgers that are snatching the cat’s food. Foxes are also gracing the porch of the Marsden Avenue home, in hope of an extra meal they won’t have to catch.

Clare shared more footage caught on the security camera of a slender fox who can be seen sniffing around the doorstep. “We also get foxes in our garden area and caught on camera for the first time a fox eating the cat's food.”

The resident explained that she does not mind the wildlife helping themselves to the food as her pets have access to the indoors where there is plenty more food for them to feast on, so they ‘do not go without’.