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Who owns this, cat dog, fox or something else?

19 years ago

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Its dark grey, quite solid and there is no smell until you get your nose right down close. Then it smells like the odd whiff I have caught of a fox or off a very pongy dog dog. I dont know how female dogs smell but it isnt the smell I would associate with dog poo.

My mum, a country lass, thinks fox going by the smell

Comments (21)

Kazzie
19 years ago
Sean... you are hysterically funny!!! Remember that thread you posted about you having to pee on the garden to state your territory... well I reckon the 'whatever it is' has upped the game!!!!
Sean_McKinney
Original Author
19 years ago
If it is "one up manship", it's won. :-))))

On a very sad note I found this site
http://www.predatormastersforums.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=0amp;Board=29
whilst surfing for "fox poo" I am still shocked. If you are an animal rights activist DO NOT go there.
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Kazzie
19 years ago
I daren't look at link
Linda_Clive
19 years ago
well you two had me chuckling all the way up to Newcastle.
whose poo is it? I'm thinking along the same lines as your mum Sean, I hope you haven't got a cat or dog, as my poor girl had a really nasty infestation which was a fox mite. It was horrid to get rid of. We now have fence all around the garden and have not had any further visits, or strange poo. Having said all of that, I recll seeing the fox early one morning and she was a mangy thin hauted looking thing, I felt very sorry for her.
Sean_McKinney
Original Author
19 years ago
No dogs or cat here, no fresh deposites either!
fishmaduk
19 years ago
hi
all.
it,s (how de ho) mr.hanky the christmas poo he must have

drown in your pond over christmas.

i hope u give it a good send off!

like next doors garden ?.

-------------fishmaduk-------david-----------
chippewacat
19 years ago
I am betting cat, as my understanding is that fox is really foxy in the old nostrils...

One thing I really like about this site--you can never predict what will be on it next!
annabel_
19 years ago
mr hanky! i like it,,,, ;-)
oh this just cracks me up,,and Linda,,why on earth would you WANT to come up here!
AJC_1
19 years ago
Mckinney talking crap again is he :)
Linda_Clive
19 years ago
Hi Annabel, I come up to your neck of the woods on a regular basis, I look after a lot of colleges running counselling courses in the NE. I love coming up north! I do lots of back garden pond spotting in trains.
annabel_
19 years ago
they must go by very quick on the train,,surely no ideas there then?
i hope this thread doesn't start a photo shoot!
big_kid
19 years ago
Could it be a regurgitated owl pellet or something like it?
AJC_1
19 years ago
You got hedgehogs there Sean?
Kazzie
19 years ago
Would hedgehogs be around this time of year Alan?

I can't believe we are discussing a Turd!!!
horton
19 years ago
Sean, it's a Leprechaun's wee gift to you.
I think you're supposed to put it under your pillow for luck ;)
"H"
Sean_McKinney
Original Author
19 years ago
Horton, roflmao. I will send it to you if you would like some "luck of the Irish", I am sure your Mrs would love it!!!!!
Alan, good point but that I know of, once in a yellow polka dot moon, that's even rarer than a blue moon. One neighbour used to get them but doesnt any more and it must be 20 years since I saw one here.

BK I did wonder about that but going by owl pellets I have seen on telly it looked to 'processed' for that and too long
AJC_1
19 years ago
Kazzie, I have seen two dead on the road already, even here in the fens, so I guess they are awake.

possible that one or two have moved into the nieghbourhood again Sean, send it to a lab lol, they might tell you!

If it turns out to be leprechauns it'll make ya rich lol

its not owl, that I do know!
Scotty24
19 years ago
Sean
Quick reference guide to poo on the link below.
I'm with Horton...it's a Leprechaun.
Next project...an outside loo for the 'little people'?
Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Who did that?
horton
19 years ago
Now that link was a load of sh-- Sue :~)
How are you doin'? Well I hope!
That Sean fella just can't seem to stay out the doodoo can he? LOL
"H"
Sean_McKinney
Original Author
19 years ago
Not hedgehog then, Badger, now that would be nice but unfortunately not likely and some sick b.....d would probably set traps for them, grrr, I think its fox or little people on a hairy diet.
Annabel_uk_
19 years ago
that must be one heck of a hedgie!!!!
it could enter the grand national with that ;-)

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