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Rat or hedgehog droppings?

SnowyMuckish · 2021-12-30 12:54:34

Saw this on top of our wall today, close to where the kids play. Just wondering if it’s rat or hedgehog droppings? We have hedgehogs in the garden but have had rats close to the same area in the past.

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30-12-2021 1:54pm

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SnowyMuckish

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Saw this on top of our wall today, close to where the kids play.
Just wondering if it’s rat or hedgehog droppings?
We have hedgehogs in the garden but have had rats close to the same area in the past.
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#2 30-12-2021 11:48pm
Day Lewin

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I think most likely fox.
Rat droppings are rounder, like large raisins.
Hedgehogs are deep in hibernation at this time of year.
But foxes are active, and they mark their feeding sites and borders of their territory with scats, left in conspicuous places as a warning to other foxes. These look to me like marking scats.

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#3 08-01-2022 10:49am
Eddie B

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May well be hedgehogs. Certainly not rat droppings

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#4 08-01-2022 11:41am
SnowyMuckish

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I was thinking that myself, but just worried in case they were rat’s droppings where the kids play.

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