Holes with poo in?

The_Biff

We have just got back from a week away to find quite a few holes in the garden with poo in. The poo is too large for cats & could be a large dog or fox. The wood chip paths look like a large animal has had a go at digging them up.

No dog has ever got into our back garden.

Any thoughts?

MoneyMate

teddysmum

Foxes will climb.

C_J

Badger .

The_Biff

A friend has also suggested badgers. Can they climb?

ariba10

Next door neighbour that you may have upset?

The_Biff

It's def badgers. Had a good look at the poo & it is larger than I first thought. Then found large excavation in quiet corner of garden, coming under the fence.

Strange because I live in the middle of a small town.

MoneyMate

How do you know It's def badgers ?
They might just be hard of hearing.

MoneyMate

Just to be serious for a minute found this info Hope it helps.
Badgers live in complex underground burrow system called ‘setts’ that they dig themselves. Some can be centuries old, as can the regular paths badgers use above ground!
A family group of, usually around six badgers live in each sett. Setts have a number of rooms or ‘chambers’ some for sleeping in others for having young in. There are a number of tunnels leading to the outside world. The largest sett in Britain was found to extend over 15x35m and had 12 entrances.

Badgers are incredibly clean and will not defecate (poo) in their sett – they have special latrines (communal toilets) comprising of shallow pits placed away from the setts on the edge of their territory. They will not bring food into the sett either. :beer:

Davesnave

Open hole with poo is badger/badgers marking territorial boundary.

You may have trouble closing off the hole. Once a badger decides it's going to use a particular route, it takes a lot of effort to persuade it otherwise.

Last battle I had re-routing a badger was in a built-up residential area.

I won!

C_J

Did you install traffic lights?