Who's been singing in my garden?

[Vagophile]

The photo shows the "doings" of some creature, not a cat, that will insist on using my garden as a toilet. Can anybody identify the culprit? is it a hedgehog?

 

[ArunAlec]

Have you p*ss*d off anyone on the forum?

 

[Meoncoast]

Identify poo | The Wildlife Trusts

Have you found some animal poo? Droppings, dung, spraints and scat - animal poo goes by many names. Knowing how to identify poo can be a great way of finding some of Britain's more elusive mammals. Here's how to identify some common animal droppings including hedgehog poo and fox poo.

www.wildlifetrusts.org

take a closer look as use the chart DIY task

 

[Perfectos]

Foxy Loxy

You will know by the smell

 

[Vagophile]

Identify poo | The Wildlife Trusts

Have you found some animal poo? Droppings, dung, spraints and scat - animal poo goes by many names. Knowing how to identify poo can be a great way of finding some of Britain's more elusive mammals. Here's how to identify some common animal droppings including hedgehog poo and fox poo.

www.wildlifetrusts.org

take a closer look as use the chart DIY task

Thanks, I think I've nailed the culprit

 

[pjm-84]

Well, that's interesting. I thought it fox but it appears not. One of my dogs has a partial liking to rolling in this stuff. Now I know

 

[EddieEagle]

5 hedgehogs ??

 

[Jodalo]

Looks like Biltong to me. Probably tastes like it too.

 

[Velma's Dad]

Fox poopy poo poo is dark grey to black, the stools tend to have pointed ends and it's the consistency of axle grease. I know because a previous beloved hound of ours loved rolling in it. The smell is best described as "quite distinctive".

 

[Wesel]

What if there are lots of white or pink papers around?

 

[SailSki]

I horrified my brother by giving his kids this book years ago, and the voice of the reader in this version just cracks me up.

 

[Jay gas]

Probably one of these

 

[Borris]

Oh that was your garden was it!

 

[Vagophile]

Oh that was your garden was it!

I have taken "expert" advice and "wilded" the garden, that's why I'm pleased to see evidence of wildlife. Apart from that, no maintenance costs. One problem: occasionally have to mount an expedition to locate my wife.

 

[Velma's Dad]

I see someone has been bowdlerising this thread, including changing the thread title and also editing the content of my post above.

Firstly, can I ask that mods (I assume?) do NOT edit members' posts without reference to them. If a poster contravenes forum standards then maybe take it up with them, or delete the whole post? I know this is a trivial case and obviously faintly humorous but in principle we shouldn't expect our words to be edited, even then.

Secondly, could we maybe get over this absurd squeamishness and/or infantalisation of bodily functions? All animals do it, and so do we.

 

[Vagophile]

Oh dear! I've been absent when the sh*t hit the fan. I wasn't aware that the word s*it or its derivatives was quite so offensive. Didn't I hear good ol' Robert Peston using such language on national TV the other night? My serious objection is the choice of replacement word, defecating would have at least kept the sense of the post.(or is that offensive too?).Nobody has sung in my garden to the best of my knowledge while I have been in residence.

 

[Velma's Dad]

Oh dear! I've been absent when the sh*t hit the fan. I wasn't aware that the word s*it or its derivatives was quite so offensive. Didn't I hear good ol' Robert Peston using such language on national TV the other night? My serious objection is the choice of replacement word, defecating would have at least kept the sense of the post.(or is that offensive too?).Nobody has sung in my garden to the best of my knowledge while I have been in residence.

In the humanitarian aid sector, more specifically the water and sanitation specialism, the plain English word sh*t is used routinely in conversation and indeed sometimes in published documents, as a shorthand for "human excreta". It makes sense for the same reason we don't say "nutritional produce" when we mean food.

If anyone seriously finds the word sh*t, used as a noun, offensive then really, then there's nothing really I can say except they need to get out more.

In the above I've only used put in the asterisks to avoid either the forum software or some smart-arsed cretin from editing my post.

 

[Amarillo]

My serious objection is the choice of replacement word, defecating would have at least kept the sense of the post.

Crapping
Dropping a turd
Leaving a stool

All perfectly acceptable.