They seem to eat a lot of takeaways (raiding bins etc) and, at this time of year, yew berries - which give them diarrhoea. Yum. Now you mention it, there have been a couple of dry flaky ones recently which didn't stink so much (they did once I got close though).Â
Our foxes live in a hippie area. Their poos are dry and packed with seeds and berries: resembling very high end vegan cereal bars. Coffee beans that have been 'processed' by the digestive systems of civets command a high price. Maybe I should market "fermented, fox berry bars" and retire to Mustique.
Mellors, good ole countreee boyee, can smell fox or it's poo from fifty paces. I know nothing!
This cracks me up - my mother makes fun of me because I can smell porcupines the same way. They smell like the worst, most potent body odor you've ever smelled.Â
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@Copperdog This is hedgehog poo. Being a provider of a nice garden to make a hedgehog family happy, I wouldn't exclude that the glove goes onto a hedgehog's account. I have never had so much damage and changes in my garden since I was first choice for them. They have bitten through a mesh of thick plastic covering of an empty raised bed hoping to find worms in the soil. They jump into half a meter high planters to find worms. Watch out for holes. They persistently dig huge holes everywhere and especially under tree stems. On the other side, I was able to see the strong roots that our lilac tree has got in its third year now.I had to cover the area with bricks to stop the rioting.
Our neighbour has seen a fox in their garden and told us he thinks it just come into ours too as our light on back of garage kept coming on - we are semi detached. I noticed a poo bag down the garden 2 weeks ago had a hole torn in it and the poo kind of scattered about. I saw this poo this morning on the gravel which I’m positive is not our dog as his poo usually looks different. Then I noticed my gloves had been taken down the other end of the garden and the finger chewed 🫣
@Dovefromabove that’s what my neighbour to right and I also thought about the newly planted apple tree on their side - until my neighbour downstairs and I were watching the hedgehogs in my garden 😳 He was digging holes every meter on the path. Of course I can only assume that the other things were done by them too
I agree it sounds like a fox. They can do all sorts at this time of year - at any time of year in the right location. It would have to be some sort of mutant Ninja hedgehog to be doing that damage @Simone_in_Wiltshire
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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It would have to be some sort of mutant Ninja hedgehog to be doing that damage @Simone_in_Wiltshire
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.