I keep waiting for you to post a picture of your lawn all plowed up Hugo, a friend of mine had friendly badgers visit regularly then one morning he came down to a destroyed lawn. Apparently if they find grubs under the turf they will root up the hole lawn overnight. I still think it's worth it to watch them
I have the T shirt, when I lived up the valley, I found the scenes you mention, not just me, but, as far as I could see, affecting a lot of the sheep farmers, my property bordered forestry land, and one year they renewed the fencing, a job extremely well done, with few gaps, I bought galleons of creosote and sprinkled it along the fence line, whether it was one or both, it worked.
PS Hugo if the feeding stops working, remember the creosote