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Is this fox droppings ?

  • 03-06-2019 03:38PM
    #1
    ondafly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭


    Hi discovered some parcels in the garden. See image for scale with a tennis ball. ? Is this fox droppings ? There was an even bigger one but that’s been cleaned up.

    https://ibb.co/hVN0LCN


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  • #2
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    Looks very black for a Fox, I'd be more inclined to say Badger, if you think that could be possible.....


  • #3
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Fox is more cylindrical, with a nice little twist at the end.
    Unless it has been walked on.
    If its a front garden, the other possibility is stag (as in, a drunk on his way home from a stag party)


  • #4
    ondafly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭ondafly


    cheers folks - I'm trying to setup a camera and see can we find out. Hopefully not a badger, we have a jack russell and I don't think they would get along !


  • #5
    Eddie B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Yes, it looks like badger to me also. Fox is usually solid, and badger more runny.


  • #6
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,761 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    ondafly wrote: »
    cheers folks - I'm trying to setup a camera and see can we find out. Hopefully not a badger, we have a jack russell and I don't think they would get along !

    If it smells really, really bad :eek:it's fox, otherwise it could be badger - it looks like fox to me though as badger is more like one short lump with little hard round bits joined together.

    If there's a badger around don't worry about the dog - we have fox and badgers - the fox is a little cheekier and ignores the dog but if the badger even hears one of them barking he's off, and they can runway in seconds!


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  • #7
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,808 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    There is only 1 person who can help here. Gillian McKeith.


  • #8
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Badgers almost always use a dedicated latrine area near the sett. Badger dung is possible but quite unlikely.

    Whereas foxes frequent suburban gardens, and they mark their feeding places with scat. This is intended to show other foxes that the area is claimed!
    Fox droppings are very variable: in Autumn, for instance, they are full of cherry-stones and blackberry pips, clearly visible.

    Foxes are opportunistic feeders, and will eat almost anything: this looks to me like fox droppings where the animal had eaten something a bit laxative, maybe one of your neighbours left out some fruitcake for them!

    Only other likely candidate is hedgehog; often quite similar to fox, a bit smaller: and like fox scat, usually more formed.

    Finally, don't forget the likelihood of domestic animals - dogs and cats, fouling the grass.


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