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Poo ID

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited October 2022 in Wildlife gardening
What does very smooth very shiny dark grey/ black like wet clay a bit over an inch long poo? It looks like an extended slug until you poke it .
I thought it might be hedgehog but the pics on Google show hp to be lumpy and grainy and shiny.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Hedgehog?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Hedgehog on Google is much lumpier. I suppose what they eat makes a difference
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2022
    A photo would be best....

    If no grey or white bits of urea, then probably not a bird.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Here's one I  poked  earlier. It was a sausage  before 

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Any help? https://www.mammal.org.uk/whose-poo/

    ... always remembering that what's been eaten will affect colour and texture ... droppings of hedgehogs fed on cat food will have a different colour and texture to those eating a diet of beetles etc.  



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Looks very fresh, which is why it's shiny.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Looks like bits of beetle in it. Maybe.  As it's definitely not rat. I don't mind.I
    Just had a thought ( it happens occasionally!). We have toads. Googled toad poo. They even have a picture of it exiting a toad. I'm pretty sure that's what it is - perhaps @Dovefromabove @Fire
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    edited October 2022
    Now that's something I'd never thought of before, toad excrement. 
    Interesting to know.
    But does anyone else see a tabby kitten on its back with its legs in the air when viewing that last image?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096

    😂

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