Name The Poo!!
Jase73
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I need help identifying these 2 types of poo.
The 1st 2 pics are from my front patio. This poo has been found elsewhere over the last couple of weeks on the front & back lawns & both patios. It's back, often shiny with 'bits' in, often long & pointy (about 2 inches).
The next 2 have been found inches from the side of my shed in a border. There is a 2 to 3 inch hole at the side of the shed leading under it.Their is evidence of something making a path through this border from this hole, not real tracks though.The blue slug pellets give you an idea of size, as does the Cyclamen leaf (the poo's about just over an inch long with bits in, but brown). It's the 1st time I've seen this poo, although the hole has been by the shed for about 3 weeks (same amount of time that the black poo's been appearing).
Hope all this info can help identify what animal/animals are leaving these presents!!
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HI Jase. I think the first one is hedgehog and the second is rat.
First poo definitely looks like hedgehog. The shiny bits will be beetle wing cases
Not sure about the second ones - they look too large for rats to me.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
hedgehogs and slugs pellets.
not so good
Hedgehogs eat slugs.
In the sticks near Peterborough
They could be squirrel.
1st poo i'm convinced is hedgehog, thanks guys. The 2nd I don't think is rat, there are only 2 & no more & it looks too big (i'll measure it in the morning) But i'm not sure. My concern is the mystery hole under the shed (if it is rat). Do rats poo near there front door? I'm thinking squirrel, as I know we've had them in the garden & the border is under a tree with bird feeders in.
BTW...the slug pellets are creature friendly non-chemical ones (natural food colouring too)!!
TETLEY.....no sign of digging in the borders or lawn at all. However, as I've mentioned there is a 3 inch ( or so) hole dug under going under the (plastic form) shed side, Hence my concern in id'ing the poos, incase it's rats.
slugs are creatures
other creatures eat them
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Haha!!!! I was enjoying a bar of chocolate, I wasn't expecting to see pictures of ??? on the forum!! Very entertaining and informative too, but I wish I'd not had that bar of chocolate!????
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In the sticks near Peterborough