Name that poo

Leif

I have a problem with poo in my back garden, which I've assumed to be from a dog, although one was certainly from a badger. A recent one is shaped as per dog poo, dark, almost black, but as it decayed it has exposed some seeds, one looking like a cherry pit, suggesting it is not dog poo. Is there some other animal that produces smelly poo? It did smell bad when I was digging nearby. Some other stuff I walked in smelt just like dog poo, perhaps there are multiple animals using my garden as a latrine. There is a deer that visits a neighbour, but deer poo is totally different, and not really smelly.

Valli

hedgehogs do dark poo

azzabazza

Valli wrote: »

hedgehogs do dark poo

I agree. We have a hedgehog who regularly visits (we leave out hedgehog nibbles) and he/she regularly thanks us by leaving poo as described above.

Leif

Valli wrote: »

hedgehogs do dark poo

With the same dimensions as dog poo? This was a pile 3" across, ~2" high.

peter_the_piper

Fox, we get lots around here at blackberry time.

Dippypud

The urban foxes near us do very dark poo...

and the dog fox who feel asleep under our scaffold tower last week was HUGE, easily as big as a labrador dog. :eek:

That said...

do you have crows or corvids locally?

they will regurgitate the indigestible bits, beetle cases and seeds, of their meals...

a bit like owls casts

Any help ?

keelyjrs

Def fox poo, my dog tries to roll in it when he finds some... the worst smell ever lol

Leif

I don't think this was of bird origin. It certainly looked like it was squeezed out of something's backside, with a well defined shape. I'll put this one down as fox. Oddly I've not seen any round here.