Badgers are stubborn. Determined. If they see something they want, they don't stop until they get it. It's where the phrase "badgering the witness" and other such things came from. So what if I knocked over the chair? Why should it bother me that I'm barely hanging on to the edge? There's cookies to be had, and they're almost within reach, just need to get a little higher, reach a liiiiitle farther...