Mandy Hope loves animals more than anything else. She knows quite a lot about them too: both her parents are vets and Mandy helps out in their surgery, Animal Ark.

James leads Mandy to a badger sett he's been watching, but they find that the sett has been deliberately destroyed! Even worse, they find an orphaned badger cub.

Can Mandy and James find out who has done such a terrible, cruel thing? And will they find a home for the young badger?