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  • 13-05-2020 10:22AM
    #1
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭


    Every few days something goes to the toilet in the same spot and I'm not sure what it is so if anyone could assist. This was this mornings deposit!

    https://ibb.co/m5Gq6Kp


    Largest piece is approx 2cm

    Critters in and around my garden include a pheasant (which i havent heard in a few days, lots of cats in the area so he might be dead). Rats, nearby sheep feeding station seems to attract them. I'm also near small lakes and a wooded area. I havent noticed any hedgehogs here ever. I suspect rats but I'm not certain as the shape doesnt look quite right from what i've seen online.


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  • #2
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    sheep ?


  • #3
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    pawrick wrote: »
    Every few days something goes to the toilet in the same spot and I'm not sure what it is so if anyone could assist. This was this mornings deposit!

    https://ibb.co/m5Gq6Kp


    Largest piece is approx 2cm

    Critters in and around my garden include a pheasant (which i havent heard in a few days, lots of cats in the area so he might be dead). Rats, nearby sheep feeding station seems to attract them. I'm also near small lakes and a wooded area. I havent noticed any hedgehogs here ever. I suspect rats but I'm not certain as the shape doesnt look quite right from what i've seen online.

    It's highly unlikely that a cat would be able to harm a grown pheasant. Doesn't look like bird poo, cat poo, rabbit poo, rat poo or hedgehog poo. I'd say sheep as well, but there isn't "enough", so I'm not sure.


  • #4
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    I'd be thinking Rats!.....


  • #5
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No, wrong shape.

    69c78348b3584a22a4bcd0cb0c122e0e.ashx


  • #6
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    New Home wrote: »
    No, wrong shape.

    Depending on what they are eating Rats have a wide variety of 'Poo Shapes'.....


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  • #7
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭pawrick


    It's not sheep, we have them around but I'd have seen them in the garden and it's not similar enough. Cats nope, used to them also and would recognise it. Rats is the most obvious to me but I wanted a second opinion.


  • #8
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,444 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Thread needs somebody who really knows their sh1t.


  • #9
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    like this guy ;)


  • #10
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭pawrick


    So i guess I'll get a trail cam (been meaning to get one a long time) as I'm still not 100% certain, tied between a rat or a squirrel at this stage given the size of the droppings.


  • #11
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    pawrick wrote: »
    So i guess I'll get a trail cam (been meaning to get one a long time) .

    great investment, you wouldn't regret it


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