mullethunter Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 (edited) Since yesterday when I shut the girls into the run for bed, a small, black pile of poo has appeared next to the run. It's a coiled pile (like a fake one), very dark coloured and soft (sorry ). The pile is about 5cm across and the actual poo is about 1cm diameter. My sense of smell is hopeless but don't think it smells too bad. So the question is, Fox or Hedgehog? I know there are hedgehogs here but their poo when I've seen it before has just been little short bits (similar diameter though), don't know about Foxes. What do you reckon? I'll try to post photo later. Edited December 17, 2015 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Thank goodness I have eaten I have only seen fox pooh once and it was very dark. Never seen hedgehog pooh but wouldnt it be small as they arent huge are they? sorry no help. I expect a pooh expert will be along later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Try this: poo identifier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 the description doesn't quite fit either but it's nearer to fox but even with a poor sense of smell I can normally smell the scent of a fox or tom cat fox poo is normally a messy dollop not a coil and normally black but that depends on weather some misguided fool is feeding them pet food but the fox smell is normally still there of a few hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 That's what I found from my Google Olly but as SJP said it doesn't quite fit either. Surely it's too small to be fox. Or maybe I just don't want it to be! Anyway here is the offending item... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 My money would be on a fox. You don't usually come across hedgehog poo, I don't know where they do it but you rarely see it! From my experience of hedgehog poo, it doesn't look like that. Foxes will use poo to mark territory so will do bits here and there and there may well be mature cubs around too. Unlikely but don't rule out cat poo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 We have 2 cats and there are others around. I know their poo and it never looks like that. I'm afraid I think it's a fox. No more leaving them out whilst I nip to the shop (although it's not the sort of place you see foxes during the day, we're neither rural or urban enough) and I'll have to double up defences when re-siting the run this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I know it is rather large but the colour and shape is right for a hedgehog. They normally look at lot smaller though, but if it a large one eating to fatten up for Winter I think they could be that size. We had a small hedgehog in over Winter and fattened him up best we could and put him in a hibernation box in an unheated bedroom. He was on hedgehog food and the amount of poo he created was incredible. When we put him into the garden he gorged on snails and there were piles of poo slightly smaller than that all over the place. He grew very large indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 My money would be on a fox. You don't usually come across hedgehog poo, I don't know where they do it but you rarely see it! Bit like rocking horse poo then!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lydia Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 That's fox poo. We regularly see that sort in our garden and the night vision cameras pick up the fox when it does it. Please don't assume you're not urban enough to see a fox during daytime. We're not especially urban either but we see them a lot, especially this time of year when mature cubs have left home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Never thought I'd a thread dedicated to the brown stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 We used to see the odd bit of hedgehog poo in the garden when we lived in Brum. Never more than 3cm long though, and certainly not enough to create a pile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 Well, this morning one of the cats drew my attention to a bit of the mesh in the Omlet fence that has been clearly chewed through (she jumped through the resulting hole to come in and see what me and he chooks were up to!). Definitely not by a hedgehog! When my photobucket app unfreeze a I'll post a photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted December 17, 2015 Author Share Posted December 17, 2015 Came home at lunch time, collected Bernie's egg ( ) and let the girls out for half an hour. Well, opened the run but the girls just looked at me and wouldn't come out which is unheard of. I left them to it thinking they'd come out in a minute and came back to the house. When I got back in OH was shouting 'Get back outside there's a fox!'. In the middle of the day a fox had been sitting on our decking outside the patio doors! I ran out yelling at it and it scarpered. Case closed - definitely a fox! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 BAD FOX frightening your girls I just wanted to add that hedgehog poo looks a little bit like a dark slug whenever I've seen any. Fox poo comes in all shapes and sizes but defo stinks. I hope your girls stay safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 Keeping the patio door ajar whilst they're FRing and I'm indoors. Good job it's mild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Thought you might like to watch this Hedgehog Hotel on ITV at 5.30pm on Monday 28th December Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 Oooh thank you - I definitely will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Thought you might like to watch this Hedgehog Hotel on ITV at 5.30pm on Monday 28th December Did you watch it ? It was very sweet but sadly no info on poop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Watched it now - lovely little program It's funny because my dad got me a book about hedgehogs for Christmas and there were loads of things that crossed over. Shame there was no poo ID but I'm pretty sure now (having seen him) that the leavings by the run were Mr Sox Fox! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
