Strange poo

[Les Marshall]

Can anyone identify this dropping? I have found it in my garden and cannot quite identify it.

 

[Shewie]

What sort of size is it ? If it's small it could be hedgehog but if it's bigger then it's probably fox

 

[Les Marshall]

Sorry mate, meant to put size on it. Its approx 70mm x 20mm

 

[Gill]

probably fox ,its a predator anyway.

 

[nuggets]

well thats just put me off me dinner :-(!!! Puts a new slant on talking `crap` thou !!!

 

[Shewie]

I'd be tempted to go with fox at that size, I'm no poo expert though lol

There looks to be hair and small bones in it, do you fancy breaking it apart for a proper autopsy ??

Do you get foxes close to the house where you are ?

 

[Shewie]

It looks a bit like a deep sea monster with a tiny black eye

Twiglet anyone ......

 

[Les Marshall]

We do get foxes, but never had one "dump" in the garden. plenty of hedge hogs though. Also get the odd deer walking down the main road very early in the morning as I live at the foot of the Sussex Downs.

 

[JonathanD]

I'd say fox. Give it a good sniff, that'll tell you. Fox poo is very distinctive.

 

[Les Marshall]

I'll SWMBO to do that!

 

[JonathanD]

I'll SWMBO to do that!

Excellent. Resist the urge to push her.

 

[_scorpio_]

salt+slug= that abomination

 

[bushwacker bob]

It looks like Mr Hankey but I couldn't be sure in an ID parade.

 

[paolo]

It's a fox for me too.

 

[spiritwalker]

defo a fox the crimped tail end is a giveaway

 

[badgeringtim]

Clearly a fox - i wouldnt smell it fox scat is very distinktive as said above but its also seriously nasty!
Typically shaped, was it close to a slightly raised bit of ground or an object - or just in the open - fox tend to put there waste on display for all to see! Nice!

 

[Baggy]

Clearly a fox - i wouldnt smell it fox scat is very distinktive as said above but its also seriously nasty!
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I seem to remember that foxes poo in badger setts so that the fastidious badgers are drive out by the smell leaving the fox a home. Although I believe that only works in the case of newish or outlying setts.

 

[Les Marshall]

Very much in the open. Not had another one since that one though, so I guess it was "passing Through" Scuse the pun

 

[badgeringtim]

I would be suprised about the idea of fox scat scaring away brock, they can co-habit but i suspect only when the badger wants to, also i have seen latrines in large badger setts which are in collapsed entrances and still part of the network (probably unusual) but thats not quite the same to be fair. I have seen badgers marking entrances to rabbit burrows again hard to explain - although they can take rabits at some times of year so may have been marking a resource or just been spitefull to the bunny who probably got sticky paws coming out.


I think i would be tempted to have a widdle around the area in the evening to persuade foxy to not leave you to many more. Once they get a taste for the area it can be a bit iof a pain to get rid of them.