Name that scat
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Catherine G.
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I'm sorry to be gross but I need help identifying what kind of critter might have left a couple of piles of this ... stuff in my backyard. Anything I should be concerned about? I live just north of New York City.
Found a couple of piles of this in our backyard.
22 answers
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Racoon or cat
Terri
on Jun 27, 2013
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Defiantly Fox poo!
Nancy Hand
on Jun 27, 2013
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I was thinking coyote or red fox, but I am NOT scat expert lol...
360 Sod (Donna Dixson)
on Jun 27, 2013
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raccoon, have them around my home
Susan Mallard
on Jun 27, 2013
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Coyote and fox are pretty rare in my area ... Raccoon is definitely more likely. Has anyone found any good deterrents for raccoons? Once my garden starts to bear fruit, I suspect they'll become more frequent visitors to my yard. No damage so far ...
Catherine G.
on Jun 28, 2013
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Raccoon
Lou
on Jun 28, 2013
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I am using shavings if Irish Spring for deer - maybe racoons have the same sense if smell. It's inexpensive enough try- of course if you see a racoon with a shower cap on I'd guess it's not a deterrent
Alaina Eblen
on Jun 28, 2013
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if you sprinkle some cayenne pepper around the plants in your garden they will get a good sniff of that and never come back.
Monique Ross
on Jun 28, 2013
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Raccoons are more omnivorous than foxes or coyotes...and there are seeds in there.
KMS Woodworks
on Jun 28, 2013
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Skunk?
Cyndy Nelson
on Jun 28, 2013
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Raccoon. I have one that goes in the same spot in my flower bed every night. Then he dug my sweet potato vine out of my wheel barrel planter. We are going to trap him and move him to a new home. I can put up with a little poo but start digging my plants and you gotta go. :)
Wilma Fendrick
on Jun 28, 2013
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Here are some Google images that seem to match pretty well. https://www.google.com/search?q=raccoon+scat&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Ft7OUeejIKaHywG0zoDYBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=461#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=zaRy5TLivJYwNM%3A%3B_08i-7qgzlOoRM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.harpercollege.edu%252Fls-hs%252Fbio%252Fdept%252Fguide%252Fgallery%252Fevidence%252Fscat%252Foriginal%252FRaccoon_Scat.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.harpercollege.edu%252Fls-hs%252Fbio%252Fdept%252Fguide%252Fgallery%252Fevidence%252Fscat%252Fthumb.html%3B671%3B600 Who would have though the internet could would be so useful to look up images of animal poo http://www.harpercollege.edu/ls-hs/bio/dept/guide/gallery/evidence/scat/original/Raccoon_Scat.jpg
KMS Woodworks
on Jun 29, 2013
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racoons and coyote will have seeds in their scat. There are plenty as well as foxes up here, just north of you Catherine.
Peg
on Jun 29, 2013
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Great POST! Yesterday while spraying weeds behind my fence line, I found a VERY SIMILAR "matter" on an old stump! had a similar thought... what in the world is THAT?? though we do have a family of raccoon that live in the woods that I see the big one sporadically back there. No I know! we do have fox, but last 2 years is much more rare to see them.
Jim Ginas
on Jun 29, 2013
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Thanks, everyone. KMS Woodworks, the link you provided has a photo of raccoon poo that looks just like the piles I found in my yard. Now to figure out how to keep the buggers out!!
Catherine G.
on Jun 29, 2013
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If you find a way to deter them, please share. They are territorial and we have a family that just loves my front yard trees. No damages to date, but we have dogs out back where the garden is so that's probably what is keeping our garden safe. I worry about them fighting my dogs though and diseases they might spread? Too bad they are so cute because I'm sure they are really nasty. We live in the city and they thrive here on garbage etc. Clever critters actually :)
Clarisse Gibson
on Jun 29, 2013
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Leave it to the internet to even have pics of wild animal poop! I guess what i had in my yard was NOT from a raccoon...now I have to do more studying! Great question.
Barbara R
on Jun 29, 2013
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Try mothballs. I had a family of raccoons that would come up on my deck and try to get into the bird seed. So I took a box of mothballs and scattered them all over. Yes it did smell for a while, but that did the trick.
Jenny Campbell
on Jun 30, 2013
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Thank you for the picture... I have the same thing in my garden I now I am sure is raccoons.
Enid Berrios
on Jul 01, 2013
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We have had a few visits from "Rocky" over the last few years. http://kmswoodworks.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/a-vist-from-rocky/
KMS Woodworks
on Jul 01, 2013
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KMS: he's posing! has that "oh crap, I'm caught" look!
Jim Ginas
on Jul 01, 2013
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Looks like coyote. Does it have seeds in it. That's a dead give away.
Marilyn
on Mar 02, 2016
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